Sometimes if there's a book you really want to read, you have to write it yourself.

People gave me such a bad time about wanting a baby. I didn't want a baby, and I still don't. I wanted a dog.

The Swedish he knew was mostly from Bergman films. He had learned it as a college student, matching the subtitles to the sounds. In Swedish, he could only converse on the darkest of subjects.

Whenever I saw her, I felt like I had been living in another country, doing moderately well in another language, and then she showed up speaking English and suddenly I could speak with all the complexity and nuance that I hadn't realized was gone. With Lucy I was a native speaker.

Some people need a huge amount of attention, and they are worthy of that attention, and they're still exhausting.

You see an absolutely brilliant film later, as an adult, and you walk out thinking about what to have for dinner. Whereas something like Jaws winds up having a huge effect on me. If only my parents had been taking me to Kurosawa films when I was eight, but no.

Using your imagination is the one time in life you can really go anywhere.