{"author":"Emma Thompson","author_id":"Emma+Thompson","total_quotes":30,"quotes":[{"text":"(On period costume posture coaching:)'We all stand about like parboiled spaghetti being straightened out.","author":"Emma Thompson","tags":["actors","filming","historical-costume","movies","period-costume","posture"],"id":12655,"author_id":"Emma+Thompson"},{"text":"Difficult for actors to extemporise in nineteenth-century English. Except for Robert Hardy and Elizabeth Spriggs, who speak that way anyway.","author":"Emma Thompson","tags":["19th-century","actors","filming","improvisation","language","movies"],"id":19265,"author_id":"Emma+Thompson"},{"text":"It is remarkable how many misconceptions there are here about life in the developing world and I think that that knowledge gap has done a lot to contribute to the imbalance quite frankly.","author":"Emma Thompson","tags":["life","world","think "],"id":24050,"author_id":"Emma+Thompson"},{"text":"Indeed - judicious, consistent parenting is a dream of mine. No judgements, learning space and listening carefully are my goals.","author":"Emma Thompson","tags":["learning","goals","space "],"id":63541,"author_id":"Emma+Thompson"},{"text":"Can he love her? Can the soul really be satisfied with such polite affections? To love is to burn - to be on fire, like Juliet or Guinevere or Eloise...","author":"Emma Thompson","tags":["emotions","fire","love","politeness"],"id":84316,"author_id":"Emma+Thompson"},{"text":"Shooting Willoughby carrying Marianne up the path. They did it four times. 'Faster,' said Ang [Lee]. They do it twice more. 'Don't pant so much,' said Ang. Greg [Wise (playing Willoughby)], to his great credit, didn't scream.","author":"Emma Thompson","tags":["filming","love-scenes","movies","physical-exertion"],"id":85556,"author_id":"Emma+Thompson"},{"text":"Quick dinner with ... Ang [Lee] and his wife Jane who's visiting with the children for a while. We talked about her work as a microbiologist and the behaviour of the epithingalingie under the influence of cholesterol. She's fascinated by cholesterol. Says it's very beautiful: bright yellow. She says Ang is wholly uninterested. He has no idea what she does.I check this out for myself. 'What does Jane do?' I ask.'Science,' he says vaguely.","author":"Emma Thompson","tags":["biology","cholesterol","disparate-interests","husbands","lack-of-interest","married-couples","microbiology","neglect","science","wives","women-scientists"],"id":89062,"author_id":"Emma+Thompson"},{"text":"I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them.","author":"Emma Thompson","tags":["books","reading"],"id":106377,"author_id":"Emma+Thompson"},{"text":"Hugh Laurie (playing Mr. Palmer) felt the line 'Don't palm all your abuses [of language upon me]' was possibly too rude. 'It's in the book,' I said. He didn't hit me.","author":"Emma Thompson","tags":["adaptation","books","jane-austen","language","movies","screenplays","writing"],"id":115997,"author_id":"Emma+Thompson"},{"text":"The fire alarm went off. Fire engines came racing; we all rushed out on the gravel drive, everyone thinking it was us. In fact, one of the elderly residents of Saltram had left a pan on the oven in her flat. Apparently this happens all the time. The tenant in question is appearing as an extra -- playing one of the cooks.","author":"Emma Thompson","tags":["accidents","cooking","filming","fire","movies"],"id":116550,"author_id":"Emma+Thompson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":30,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}