You meet people who are in pain in life and love and you forgive them for behaving the way they do.
Daniel HandlerFor some stories, it's easy. The moral of 'The Three Bears,' for instance, is "Never break into someone else's house.' The moral of 'Snow White' is 'Never eat apples.' The moral of World War I is 'Never assassinate Archduke Ferdinand.
Daniel HandlerAnd when love is over when the diner of love seems closed from the outside you want all those hours back along with anything you left at the loverโs house and maybe a couple of things which arenโt technically yours on the grounds that you wasted a portion of your life and those hours have all gone southside.
Daniel HandlerThere are so many movies like this, where you thought you were smarter than the screen but the director was smarter than you, of course he's the one, of course it was a dream, of course she's dead, of course, it's hidden right there, of course it's the truth and you in your seat have failed to notice in the dark.
Daniel Handler