Jackie Collins

Ideas are all around me. If I wasn't interested in them myself, I don't think anyone else would be either.

Brittany Murphy... who knows if she's going to be around. Kirsten Dunst, I think she's really boring. Reese Witherspoon? She can open a movie.

I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.

If I make a move, like raise my eyebrows, some critic says I'm doing Nicholson. What am I supposed to do, cut off my eyebrows?