Some questions will ruin you if you are denied the answer long enough.

Film fixes a precise visual image in the viewer's head. In fiction, you just hope you're precise enough to convey the intended effect.

I do believe very much in the idea of unexpected or "convulsive" beauty - beauty in the service of liberty.

I always try to be alert to the potential for repetition, for a decaying orbit with regard to my use of technique, etc.

Who had the bigger burden? The one who had to watch the other person endure or the one who endured?

Imbuing fiction with a life that extends beyond the last word is in some ways the goal: the ending that goes beyond the ending in the reader's mind, so invested are they in the story.

The map had been the first form of misdirection, for what is a map but a way of emphasizing some things and making other things invisible?