I often feel the effects of people only after they leave me.

Just because you have stopped sinking doesn't mean you're not still underwater.

We can only die in the future, I thought; right now we are always alive.

Sometimes a flat-footed sentence is what serves, so you don't get all writerly: 'He opened the door.' There, it's open.

They say the smart dog obeys but the smarter dog knows when to disobey.

Good leaders being scarce, following yourself is allowed.

Wear your heart on the page, and people will read to find out how you solved being alive.

In my head there's a broken balcony I fall off of when I speak.

if it's true your life flashes past your eyes before you die, then it is also the truth that your life rushes forth when you are ready to start to truly be alive.

I sleep with a glass of water on the nightstand so I can see by its level if the coastal earth is trembling or if the shaking is still me.

I want to know everything about you, so I tell you everything about myself.

Pfft, who wants to make a movie about a guy in a house?

I'm letting the songs breathe and change and become what they are without force.

We've been on a long break and I've just been kicking back, doing nothing. Like our government.

I’m not really all that familiar with comic book culture.

Cinema is not a series of abstract ideas, but rather the phrasing of moments.

I've studied film a lot, so I know much more about film than music, but I don't think I could have made films.

The ten commandments and the sermon on the mount contain my religion.

Christ. Seven years of college down the drain.

Collaboration is when magic is made with more than one person. It's when more than one person finds common ground on the same page. That's collaboration.