I said it before and I’ll say it again: books are dead, plays are dead, poems are dead: there’s only movies. Music is still okay, because music is sound track. Ten, fifteen years ago, every arts student wanted to be a novelist or a playwright. I’d be amazed if you could find a single one now with such a dead-end ambition. They all want to make movies. Not write movies. You don’t write movies. You make movies.

Life is sometimes novel-shaped, mocking the efforts of those authors who, in an effort to make their novels life-shaped, spurn the easy symmetry and cheap resonance of reality.

Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.

That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand.

Literature is the only access to truth we have on this planet.

Thank you for your input; I can tell you are struggling towards being interesting.

I believe that poetry is a primal impulse within us all.