As Mark Weiner puts it, whether you gain 50 pounds or lose 50 pounds, whether you have a sex change operation for that matter, that it doesn't matter, that there is some part of ourselves that we cannot escape.

Compromise is part and parcel of making a movie. It's a question of the kinds of compromises that you have to make.

Narcissism and self-deception are survival mechanisms without which many of us might just jump off a bridge.

The ability to take pleasure in one's life is a skill and is a kind of intelligence. So intelligence is a hard thing to evaluate and it manifests itself in so many different ways. I do think the ability to know how to live a life and not be miserable is a sign of that.

At eleven I was at the peak of my creative powers: I was writing stories and playlets, putting together poetryprojects. I was absorbed by my 'work.' At twelve I was no longer reading or writing, just counting off days and checking them off. I was interested in survival.

Like everything, what compels one to put pen to paper is a great question.

Usually the audience has no idea that the censored version of whatever movie they're watching isn't the original.