I sometimes don't know what I'm writing when I start writing it, on some level.

I like movies that are about real people in real time with real problems.

It really shocks me when I encounter people who think kindness doesn't matter. Because I think it's pretty much the only thing that matters.

In college, you're kind of designing who you want to be. And I wanted to be a big reader.

I kicked college nostalgia in my late 20s. As much as I loved college and treasure the memories, I no longer want to go back.

I care about reading, a lot. It's a big part of my life.

Even though I occasionally appear on it, I don't watch television.

Kindness is not about instant gratification. More often, it's akin to a low-risk investment that appreciates steadily over time.

Film allows me to ask some really big questions with the time to explore them deeply. I love the form.

I actually have a thing about proper nouns. They clang on my ear in a weird way when I hear them dropped into movies.

All of the things I used to obsess over, I'm no longer as obsessed with. I have new concerns but they're a little more existential or cosmic.

To catch any fish, give it what it eats.

Take full account of what Excellencies you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not.

We may not be able to offer long-term employment, but we should try to offer long-term employability.

Once you've seen there is another perspective, you can never not see that there's another point of view.

We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.

When the physical organism breaks up, the soul survives. It then takes on another body.

As you get older you realise your parents aren't these superheroes. They're actually people.

I think marriage is ghastly.

Every time we take the floor, we believe we can win.

No matter how much we love someone, or think we know them, we can never know what it is like to be inside them.