Moorhouse Quotes & Sayings

I feel L.A. is unlike anything I've experienced. It's nice when I can relate to people, but that's not very often. I know they're out there, but I feel that there's a very big pressure here to be seen as being gorgeous and special. I don't think there's the same pressure in Australia. — Jocelyn Moorhouse

I am interested in stories that concern women. — Jocelyn Moorhouse

Indeed, it occasionally seems as if the book has attempted to inoculate itself against the prospect of actually being read. — Roger Moorhouse

When I was a teenager, I used to love the Bronte books, 'Wuthering Heights' and 'Jane Eyre.' In those books, the women do usually manage to heal the men, but in life, I've found it's often the woman gets wounded. Instead of healing a man, she gets affected by his cruelty. — Jocelyn Moorhouse

I would always get a lot of work as a writer, but that wasn't what I wanted to be. For me, I was only doing half of what I really wanted to do - write and direct. — Jocelyn Moorhouse

I'm superstitious. — Jocelyn Moorhouse

I always like being able to do something I haven't done before. — Jocelyn Moorhouse

Having two children with autism, it makes you really think about how we do relate to each other. — Jocelyn Moorhouse

Remember the words of Taine: "for a young person the world always seems a scandalous place". Later in life, the world seems only to be an imperfect place which can be worked on here and there. I'm told that finally, in old age, the world becomes either infinitely amusing or infinitely annoying - according to one's temperament. — Frank Moorhouse

I've got to love the film, not the money. Because I know what it's like not to have money - you still survive. — Jocelyn Moorhouse