Every night I give a violin recital for six hours, and attendance is mandatory. The word 'mandatory' means that if you don't show up, you have to buy me a large bag of candy and watch me eat it.

Members of your family might say they are working hard all day long, while you are off at school or clarinet lessons, but the only way to know this for sure is to follow them at a discreet distance.

...there's not enough ink and paper to say all I wanted.

If we wait until we're ready, we'll be waiting for the rest of our lives.

We are a nation of children letting horrible things happen, and flunking Calc.

And then like a song we'd forgotten was even on the mix, you stepped into the house and my whole life.

I never thought about whether film is inherently more sincere, because certainly I think if Guy Maddin had directed A Series Of Unfortunate Events, there probably could have been more of the stage-y irony that is in the books. But I was just interested to see what people would do with it, and worrying that Brad Silberling wouldn't do what I had in mind.