The film [Dream of Life] is not really an amateur work, despite the fact that none of us have ever done anything like this before; aesthetically, none of us are amateurs.

Since I was a child, I hated having to deal with my hair. I hated having to change my clothes. As a kid, I had a sailor shirt and the same old corduroy pants, and that's what I wanted to wear everyday.

I wrote every day. I don't think I could have written Just Kids had I not spent all of the 80s developing my craft as a writer.

My mother answers all my fan mail.

I don't think," he insisted. "I feel.

I thought to myself that he contained a whole universe that I had yet to know.

People need space to air out their thoughts, to have a sense of themselves - unfettered by anything.