Directing teenage actors is like juggling jars of nitro-glycerine: exhilarating and dangerous.

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

The battle between good and evil is endlessly fascinating because we are participants every day.

Friends. They aren’t any such thing as good friend or bad friend. Maybe there are just friend. People who stand by you when you're hurt and who helped you feel not so lonely. Maybe there are worth being scared for and hoping for and living for. Maybe worth dying for too. If that what has to be. No bad friends. Only people you want. Need to be with. People who build their houses in your heart.

We each owe a death, there are no exceptions, I know that, but sometimes, oh God, the Green Mile is so long.

And if there are no cars or planes, and if no one’s Uncle John is out in the wood lot west of town banging away at a quail or pheasant; if the only sound is the slow beat of your own heart, you can hear another sound, and that is the sound of life winding down to its cyclic close, waiting for the first winter snow to perform last rites.

Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.