Writing reminds you that you're never alone. Writing and reading is to be optimistic.

Film is the art of turning money into light, and light into money. But it begins with money.

I do feel like a fraud a lot of the time because I've never been interested in people who say 'I'm a writer', 'I'm an artist'. Too much is made of the role and not enough of the work. We are such a celebrity-driven age and a status-driven age, that the status becomes more important than the actual work.

You have to attempt to find new forms that will force you to write freshly and better and hopefully more truthfully.

When forging money, I had always salved my conscience by concluding that I was merely extending the lie of commerce.

The fallacy is that you have to hold some sort of stake in the grief or horror in order to write about it - I think the opposite is true.

Love is the scent of a sleeping back, death a slight draft of bad breath.