Top 44 Jane Goldman Quotes

I came to comic books when I was about 15.

I’m personally fed up with people seeing women and girls cast as victims.

I love the Empire Awards. It is really different and laid back.

You need to be invested in what happens. The characters are your conduit to the story. Many modern horror films are fun but not frightening because one has not connected with the characters.

We just really wanted Hit-Girl to be a character who, in a sense, simply happens to be an 11-year-old girl, in the same way that Ripley in ‘Alien’ could have been a guy, but the part happened to be played by Sigourney Weaver.

After starting as a journalist for newspapers and magazines, I began to write books and had success with a novel and four nonfiction books for young adults.

I like looking at a book and asking myself, ‘How do I replicate that experience I just had as a reader?’

I loved ghost stories. I love horror stories. I love all of that stuff, but I really yearn for something to actually frighten me. It’s more of a yearning for that than something that has to necessarily be cerebral or sophisticated. Good storytelling and something that actually frightens you.

I really enjoy the company of my kids… I’m not one of those people who goes ‘Yeah, my kids are my mates’, that’s a dreadful kind of mother, but I’m fortunate that there are times that they do want me around, and I feel lucky that they let me into their world.

I always was passionate about science fiction and horror, and my parents enjoyed that as well.

I don’t tend to be a nitpicker when I’m watching movies, so as long as something is true to the spirit of the original, that’s very much what we got for. You try to never do something that the original author wouldn’t have done themselves.

I was into Alan Moore and Frank Miller. I was a teenager when all those books where coming out for the first time – ‘Watchmen,’ ‘V for Vendetta.’ It was a great time to get into comics.

I love Vivienne Westwood – she designs for womanly shapes.

Teenagers come to things fresh and can really teach us an awful lot.

You want, in a sense, to relate to the main character, so often, the main character POV is a bit more of a blank slate.

Vengeance is the act of turning anger in on yourself. On the surface it may be directed at someone else, but it is a surefire recipe for arresting emotional recovery.

I enjoy the medium of film, and I think I understand it well, and I like working with directors, so yeah, I think I’ll stick with this.

The idea that you could make a living from writing always thrilled me.

It’s really weird because my house is very ornate, but my writing lair is very, very blank. It’s white, the furniture is white. It gives me nothing to look at, so I just have to concentrate!

I play ‘World of Warcraft,’ which means I end up hanging out with teenage boys a lot.

Quite honestly, I’m so happy to be Jonathan’s wife and my children’s mum that anything else is a bonus.

Japanese horror films take the business of being frightening seriously. There is no attempt at postmodernism or humour. They are incredibly melancholy, with a strong emotional core, while remaining absolutely terrifying.

I think when you really adore something, and you’ve grown up with it, you almost don’t want to be part of it. I want to enjoy it as a fan and don’t want to ruin the magic.

Always build. If you start at fever pitch, there’s nowhere to go.

There’s video footage of my 10th birthday where I’m wearing, like, a little pink T-shirt. Then my dad comes in brandishing a copy of ‘Eraserhead,’ going, ‘Look what we’ve got for tonight!’

If you’re writing a novel, you can afford to see where the spirit takes you, but in terms of structure and engineering with a screenplay, you have to be quite pragmatic; otherwise, it will run away from you.

I’ve yet to meet a bitter teenager. Bitterness, jealousy and jadedness, I think, are the most unattractive qualities in a person, and unfortunately they do seem to come with age.

I’ve always loved science fiction, fantasy, manga, comic books; so I guess, to some degree, those things influence my personal idea of what looks nice, which definitely isn’t everyone else’s.

I like it when characters respond to things that are outrageous and movie-like in an authentic way.

It’s crazy that most high-end designers stop at a size 14.

There is always a reverence issue, and I’m no different from any audience member that if someone’s adapting a book or comic that I like, I really don’t want them to screw it up.

I see my role as a translator, telling the story that’s in the book using the more visual language of film.

I know what I miss as a cinemagoer is that balance of films that actually scare me; they’re so few and far between.

I was so clear on the fact that I wanted to be a journalist that I asked my parents if I could go to a tutorial college to do my O-levels early, which I did when I was 13.

A lot of people use the phrase ‘underage violence,’ which, to me, is meaningless.

I pretty much always wanted to be a writer.

A friend of mine, Neil Gaiman, had the film rights to his book ‘Stardust’ bought by producer Matthew Vaughn and suggested I adapt it for the screen.

When it’s something you really adore, I think you don’t want to be the one who accidentally writes a crap episode.

‘Stardust’ ended up being my first film in 2007.

I don’t think anyone has ever been corrupted by a T-shirt.

Normally with film, it’s normal for the screenwriter to never be seen again after finishing until the premiere.

Everybody should be free to love and marry who they want.

I really enjoy the challenge of adapting.

People’s intolerance, I find puzzling.