Quotes

Chicago is a great city and I love coming back each and every time and thinking about all the great memories I have made here.

It's just easy to stay on the couch and say something. Just put your gloves on and step in the octagon with someone.

Romanians have a particular love for poetry and have a beautiful, vivid language. The poets they love are not versifiers like Vadim Tudor, but genuinely complex mystical souls like Mircea Cartarescu.

Love has no boundaries.

If I could talk to my younger self, I would tell her that you will grow into the woman you've always wanted to be. You will find love. You will be successful. You will be happy.

I love to work with people who are great at what they do.

It would be lovely to live in a world where trans-female models were treated as female models, and trans-male models were treated the same as male models rather than being a niche commodity.

Sometimes I've seen comments about my knees or about my jawline, or people write things like, 'She still has signs of being a boy,' and then I realized that these are beautiful features. I've grown to love them.

I love costume jewelry, the stuff Givenchy/Riccardo Tisci do, and old school rock n' roll jewelry, too.

I was lucky to grow up in a family where your parents loved you no matter what you were or what you came out as, and a lot of kids don't have that ride.

I would love to bring my mum to see me in shows and travel Europe with me because she has done so, so much for me.

I love Amanda Lear, Michelle Pfeiffer, Sharon Stone.

Oftentimes we love the thing we hate and vice versa.

I love fighting for what I believe in. I love having fun while doing it.

I love Whole Foods. I love the Austin-based boutique supermarket chain so much I find ways to go there almost every day.

I love reporting stories that the Complex refuses to report.

I love fighting back. I love finding allies, and - famously - I enjoy making enemies.

My children and grandchildren loved the secret servicemen and women that served us. I was honoured that they thought I was important enough to protect.

I think the reason I'm a writer is because first, I was a reader. I loved to read. I read a lot of adventure stories and mystery books, and I have wonderful memories of my mom reading picture books aloud to me. I learned that words are powerful.

The most moving scene for me in 'Pride and Prejudice' is the Pemberley music room scene: Elizabeth has just saved Darcy's sister from embarrassment and confusion, and as the music plays on, Darcy's look of gratitude becomes a look of love, which we see reciprocated in Elizabeth's eyes.

I always do like to write love stories, even if they end tragically.

I would love it if anyone gave me the job of adapting 'The Great Gatsby,' but nobody ever does.

'Affinity' is beautiful and intense, with no laughs. It's a rather delicate and emotional love story, with a spooky element.

I prefer love scenes to be shot up close with a lot of focus on eyes and mouths. Otherwise it can feel uncomfortable and voyeuristic.

I'd love to adapt more contemporary novels. But there isn't really enough story and character to make a really satisfying serial, so they tend to be single dramas.