I was always on time, I did my work to exact specifications, I spoke when spoken to.

He used to say we all had a compass inside of us and what we needed to do was to find it and to follow it.

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.

I wanted to eat her pain, take it into me and make it my own.

I am a totally public person.

Sometimes not having any idea where we’re going works out better than we could possibly have imagined.

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.