The vocation of each writer is to describe the world as he or she sees it; anything more than that is advertising.

But in love each moment is magnified, and every gesture, word and syllable is examined like a speech by the President.

Harvey [Weinstein] didn't want to release [MY SON THE FANATIC]; he held it for two years because he wanted a happy ending, although I don't know what that means. Does that mean the taxi driver leaves his wife or doesn't leave his wife? I think it has a happy ending.

No amount of promises can guarantee love

I don't want to be loved. I want to be desired. Love is safety, but desire is foul.

I began to enjoy my own generosity; I felt the pleasure of pleasing others, especially as this was accompanied by money-power. I was paying for them; they were grateful, they had to be; and they could no longer see me as a failure.

I'm interested in philosophical psychology, people like Nietzsche, Freud, Alcan, Foucault, Derrida.