I have to go with what I do, and what I do has more to do with what people say to each other than telling a story through images. Of course, you're trying to do both. And there are some people who are brilliant at it, but I don't consider myself to be particularly good at it. My mind gets into a verbal mode.

Whatever became of the moment when one first knew about death? There must have been one. A moment. In childhood. When it first occurred to you that you don’t go on forever. It must have been shattering, stamped into one’s memory. And yet, I can’t remember it.

It's no trick loving somebody at their best. Love is loving them at their worst.

I began writing for theater, and maybe because of that I've always thought of myself as a theater writer who does work in film sometimes.

No matter how imperfect things are, if you've got a free press everything is correctable, and without it everything is concealable.

He says his aim is poetry. One does not aim at poetry with pistols. At poets, perhaps.

Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.