o matter how much research you do, or invention you do, whether it's a character from a novel, a completely invented character or someone who actually existed, it's a work of faction. By the very fact you only have an hour and a half or two hours to tell a story, you're telescoping events and it is, in the end, a work of imagination.

I think the downside of the Internet is that speaking-or writing-has become the point in and of itself.

I don't understand a way to work other than bold-facedly running towards failure.

You can't really achieve anything in three years.

The emoji still doesn't really speak to the complexity that actually - or the subtext that goes on between when people actually speak face-to-face.

I'm a horrible person. And it's just coming out in my work.

The less one can think about oneself, the more interesting and attractive one becomes.