There was nothing in this world that was not a con, suddenly I understood this. Nothing really mattered, and nothing could be lost.

The level of control, that's part of what's so appealing about filmmaking - you have so much control over what the reader, the viewer, is noticing from moment to moment. They can't do that boring boring boring thing as easily.

I gave you things I wasn't sure I even had.

Thus far, everything I've made has come out of my really feeling it, out of the fire of my life.

I'm always the kind of friend or girlfriend who suggests, when there's some cataclysmic problem in the relationship, I'm like, "Well, maybe we can come up with a creative activity that will help us out." I'm like, "Let's get out the pens! Draw a picture of how much you hate me!"

That day I carried the dream around like a full glass of water, moving gracefully so I would not lose any of it.

All I ever really want to know is how other people are making it through life—where do they put their body, hour by hour, and how do they cope inside of it.