I made some shorts that I'm not in. I think because I write so many short stories, it's not that hard to come up with characters that are not me. But my way into making movies has been through performing. My very first short film, I played a child and her own mother. So in some ways, to me, my great achievement so far is just that I've gotten all these other people to play the other parts. That's what makes it a real movie.

But, like ivy, we grow where there is room for us.

Life is just this way, broken, and I am crazy to hope for something else.

We don't really believe in mowing the lawn; we do it only to avoid unnecessary engagement with the neighbors.

I walked down the hall and saw that [she] was sitting on the floor next to a chair. This is always a bad sign. It's a slippery slope, and it's best just to sit in chairs, to eat when hungry, to sleep and rise and work. But we have all been there. Chairs are for people, and you're not sure if you are one.

The job of the artist is to point at things.

It was a small thing, but it was a thing, and things have a way of either dying or growing, and it wasn’t dying.