The strength of film is its accessibility and immediacy. But the strength of books is that freedom to really depict anything you want because people are going to be reading it in private. So, I'm always trying to write with the immediacy and the constant motion of film but I'm also trying to write with the complete freedom of subject matter that books have.

Just each of us being me, me, me first. The murderer, the victim, the witness each of us thinks our role is the lead. Probably that goes for anybody in the world.

your handwriting. the way you walk. which china pattern you choose. it's all giving you away. everything you do shows your hand. everything is a self portrait. everything is a diary.

The problem with every story is you tell it after the fact.

We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens.

There's no way you can get the past right. You can pretend. You can delude yourself, but you can't re-create what's over.

To some of us, the nights are too long. To some, the days.