If you establish rules and play by them, the audience will buy in.

As a teenager, I wanted to write novels. By college, it was theater, plays, and then, shortly, it was film.

That's the history of art - you have to consider yourself fortunate if you ever get acknowledged. If you have a critical success that's also a financial success and that you feel good about... If things line up, that's pretty rare.

Monogamy, monotony. There's only a couple of letters...

Yeah, a memory's never finished, if you really think about it.

I'd like to quit thinking of the present as some minor insignificant preamble to something else.

I always sensed instinctively from the earliest age that I was being lied to.