When you can see the beauty of a tree, then you will know what love is.

I looked out the window for other passengers in love with their drivers, but we were well disguised, we pretended boredom and prayed for traffic.

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

When I was fifteen, a dark shape came into my room at night. It was dark, but it glowed, which is the first of many facts you will have to tackle with your imagination. It wasn't in the shape of a person, but right away I knew it was like a person in every way except for how it looked. As it turns out, our looks are not the main thing that makes us human.

I guess like any writer or screenwriter I'm alone in my own world so much of the time that I'm often trying to force myself out of my world. Into more risk. A less controlled kind of inspiration. I'm so keenly aware of how easy it's getting to not leave the house, with Amazon, especially.

That's the artist's job, really: continually setting yourself free, and giving yourself new options and new ways of thinking about things.

I cried in English, I cried in french, I cried in all the languages, because tears are the same all around the world.