You can't shape me anymore. I am the uncontrolled element, the random act. I am forward movement in time. You think you can see me? Then tell me, who am I? You don't know.

I tried writing fiction as a little kid, but had a teacher humiliate me, so didn't write again until I was a senior in college.

How can I shed tears for a man I should never have allowed to touch me in any way?

I wanted to hear what she was saying. I wanted to smell that burnt midnight again, I wanted to feel that wind. It was a secret wanting, like a song I couldn't stop humming, or loving someone I could never have. No matter where I went, my compass pointed west. I would always know what time it was in California.

The story of her life. God gave you everything just to take it away. Just so you knew exactly what you were missing.

To make films, you have to have boundless energy; you have to work and play with others really, really well, and I'm really a more contemplative kind of person. I like to sit at home and think, a lot.

Don't hoard the past. Don't cherish anything. Burn it. The artist is the phoenix who burns to emerge.