I don't know what I think about certain subjects, even today, until I sit down and try to write about them.

Stories have no point if they don't absorb our terror.

A Catholic is raised with the idea that he will die any minute now and if he doesn't live his life in a certain way, this death is an introduction to an eternity of pain.

It's true that some of us become better writers by living long enough. But this is also how we become worse writers. The trick is to die in between.

Look past the violence. There is a wonderful brimming spirit of innocence and fun.

Past, present and future are not amenities of language. Time unfolds into the seamsof being. It passes through you, making and shaping.

Film is more than the twentieth-century art. It's another part of the twentieth-century mind. It's the world seen from inside. We've come to a certain point in the history of film. If a thing can be filmed, the film is implied in the thing itself. This is where we are. The twentieth century is on film. You have to ask yourself if there's anything about us more important than the fact that we're constantly on film, constantly watching ourselves.