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

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.

That's how the madness of the world tries to colonize you: from the outside in, forcing you to live in its reality.

When they give you things, ask yourself why. When you're grateful to them for giving you the things you should have anyway, ask yourself why.

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

I don't believe that climate-change fiction will change the mind of a denier because most of the deniers I've met are basically in a cult situation. It's a faith issue. It's not a rational issue. There's no fact that's going to change their mind. They simply believe in the cult of climate-change denial and it somehow feeds into the rest of the mythos of their own life story.

You could know the what of something forever and never discover the why.