You're grounded!!!! You can't go out and prowl the L.A. streets. You've got to do something more edifying, emboldening and altogether more groovy. You gots to stay home tonite and read a good book!!!!!!!!!!

Our shared world is humanly unquantifiable and ideologically confused. Which one of them is capable of implementing the most recognizable harm or good?

All I want to do is make serious movies that explore social issues and turn a profit, and slip the schnitzel to Jane DePugh.

And you love to read, you love to escape, right?

Dead people belong to the live people who claim them most obsessively.

I love thinking about American history, thinking about LA history. I love brooding on crime.

As much as I transferred my mother to Elizabeth Shore of The Black Dahlia, as much as her dad mutated into an obsession with crime in general, well, I have thought about other things throughout the years.