In terms of work, I never felt that I've done it right. I always want to have done it differently, to have done it better, a different way.

Let me just be in the ground. Let me just be in the ground and go to sleep.

I don't know what I think until I write it down.

The fear is for what is still to be lost.

That no one dies of migraine seems, to someone deep into an attack, an ambiguous blessing.

Sometimes an actor performs a character, but sometimes an actor just performs. With writing, I don't think it's performing a character, really, if the character you're performing is yourself. I don't see that as playing a role. It's just appearing in public.

Making judgments on films is in many ways so peculiarly vaporous an occupation that the only question is why, beyond the obvious opportunities for a few lectures fees and a little careerism at a dispiritingly self-limiting level, anyone does it in the first place.