People tend to hold on to their first impressions - that's why those first descriptions can be so important. You don't even necessarily look at people that carefully after a while; you just hold on to that early impression.

I'm not a cinephile. My films don't reference films. I'm more interested in rhythm and feeling.

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.

The things keeping you back-these embarrassing, boring, stupid obstacles-are the heart of what it is to be human. They’re the whole reason for making and needing art. So you might as well go ahead and begin in whatever way you can right now.

She never inquired, but she never recoiled, either. This is a quality that I look for in a person, not recoiling.

I wondered if i would spend the rest of my life inventing complicated ways to depress myself.