"Knots was about the relationships that were built over many years"

"Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship"

"Broken relationships are a source of heavy heartbreak that seem to affect every family"

"No agent wants to see a book until he or she has decided whether to pursue the relationship"

"A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship"

"I think in terms of family, in terms of relationships, in terms of work, competition to be the favorite, to be the noticed, to be the one - I don't know if it exists for all personalities, but I know for sure it did with me"

"Hence my obstinate emphasis on stylistic continuity from work to work rather than specific sibling relationships between the individual work and other members of its stylistic 'family' in the world outside"

"The one who loves the least, controls the relationship"

"I really take pride in the relationship that I have with my husband"

"A real parish is a wondrously beautiful web of human relationship which is given meaning by the man who is Himself the meaning of life"

"But it's much more exciting to make Die Hard. One of the reasons that I think that movie is so successful is it deals with those very important blue-collar relationship themes. But it's more visually beautiful to show things blowing up. It just gives you more on the screen"