Cities - I'm attracted to them, and I have a special attachment to New York...it's my place.

The tone of every book is slightly different; there's a music that each has that is distinct from all the others.

Escaping into a film is not like escaping into a book. Books force you to give something back to them, to exercise your intelligence and imagination, where as you can watch a film-and even enjoy it-in a state of mindless passivity.

Just think it, and chances are it will happen.

What I'm trying to do [in Winter Journal] is to tell the story of a man's life from birth, but there are different versions of him, four different versions.

We have missed him in the sunshine, in the storm, in the twilight, ever since.

He no longer wished to be dead. At the same time, it cannot be said that he was glad to be alive. But at least he did not resent it. He was alive, and the stubbornness of this fact had little by little begun to fascinate him - as if he had managed to outlive himself, as if he were somehow living a posthumous life.