So to compare your real life, or your partner or lover or whoever to a character in a movie, you're setting yourself up for disappointment. They don't map.

It's less about what you do and more about who you are doing it with.

When you become a ghost feel free to haunt me.

Don't we want to escape our real world and go into something larger than that, simpler than that, more beautiful or darker?

I've been hearing it a lot, especially in the last few years; people will say things to me like "Well, if only I was like you in that movie," or "If only I could be with someone like you in that movie." And, you know, it's very flattering to hear that.

I think any time you set out to make something, anybody is going to be confronted by those voices in their head that say "You don't need to do this. Someone else can do this better. You should probably just quit right now."

My mom brought me up to be a feminist. She would always point out to my brother and me that our culture does often portray women like objects...