I think empathy's a terrible danger for a writer.

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

Most of us have loved. And the terror for a writer is that readers will forgive you so much, but they won't forgive you one false note about love, about which they too are expert.

What you're constantly seeking isn't a style, but a transparency between your soul and the words. And your soul is ever in flux, so therefore you have to constantly find new forms of words that might be able to register these changes in the soul.

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

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

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.