I don't care whether they're men or women, that's bullshit. A good writer can get into any gender, can get into any mouth. When I write I may be a Brando creep, or a girl laying on the floor, or a Japanese tourist, or a slob like Richard Speck. You have to be a chameleon when you're writing.

I reflected on the fact that no matter how good I aspired to be, I was never going to achieve perfection

No one knows how powerful technology is.

The film [Dream of Life] doesn't hide anything, except maybe moments of sorrow or darkness that belonged to me.

I think it's good for people to see the positive beauty that can flower from the deepest grieving.

I was so horny in school it felt like my body was filled with electricity. I felt like I had neon bones or something.

I learned a lot from Arthur Rimbaud. People talk about how he wanted to be a seer and do that through the derangement of the senses. What they forget was that he also advocated, sternly and austerely, that one must be able to go through all that - and then articulate it.