Before Plato could describe love, the loved one had to be invented. We would never love anybody if we could see past our invention. Bosie is my creation, my poem. In the mirror of invention, love discovered itself.

Rosencrantz: I don't believe in it anyway. Guildenstern: What? Rosencrantz: England. Guildenstern: Just a conspiracy of cartographers, then?

When we have found all the mysteries and lost all the meaning, we will be alone, on an empty shore.

We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. but there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it.

A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar - you pretend it's not there.

Never believe in mirrors or newspapers.

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.