The only way to real mature love is to get past the tropes of what we consider 'romance.'

Recognizing power in another does not diminish your own.

Stories come from violence, they come from sex. They come from death. They come from the dark places that everyone has to go to, kind of wants to, or doesn't, but needs to deal with. If you raise a kid to think everything is sunshine and flowers, they're going to get into the real world and die. That's the reason fairy tales are so creepy, because we need to encapsulate these things, to inoculate ourselves against them, so that when we're confronted by the genuine horror that is day-to-day life we don't go insane.

I'm never interested in movies where you don't care about the people you're watching, and that's my biggest quibble about horror, that kids have gotten stupider and stupider.

Okay, uh, I'm lost. I'm angry. And I'm armed.

I'm very much of the "make it dark, make it grim, make it tough", but then, for the love of God, tell a joke.

Sketchy: I'm no stranger to stoner logic.