They were almond cookies, although they could have been made of spinach and shoes for all I cared. I ate eleven of them, right in a row. It is rude to take the last cookie.

I love no one but you, I have discovered, but you are far away and I am here alone.

I find reading screenplays difficult, as they're only a roadmap for what a movie might end up being.

You might be afraid of the dark, but the dark is not afraid of you. That’s why the dark is always close by.

I do what I do," I said, "in order to do something else.

As I am sure you know, when people say 'It's my pleasure,' they usually mean something along the lines of, 'There's nothing on Earth I would rather do less.' [...]

Writing is a dying form. One reads of this every day.