If you care about somebody, you should want them to be happy. Even if you wind up being left out.

Calls her beautiful, but she cannot hear.

I would make the movie industry more like the television industry. TV is more material driven. In TV, you can break new stars. TV can take more chances.

I look at people holdings hands in the hallways, and I try to think how it all works. At the school dances, I sit in the background, and I tap my toe, and I wonder how many couples will dance to ‘their song.’ In the hallways, I see the girls wearing the guys’ jackets, and I think about the idea of property. And I wonder if anyone is really happy.

That was always my hope that that is exactly what I would do. It was always part of the dream of this story - to write the novel and then direct the movie.

and for the first time in my life I understand the end of that poem. And I never wanted to. You have to believe me.

And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn't really change the fact that you have what you have. Good and bad.