I think most people come toward things assuming everybody is going to be a good person. When you have an interaction where it doesn't go that way, it's very problematic and interesting and weird.

Writing is a totally different brain than directing, at least for me. With writing, you're trying your best to foresee all the problems before they happen. It's more architectural in a weird way.

I would assume that everyone has an experience in their life where they knew something wasn't cool, but even if they sort of removed themselves from it, they didn't totally stop it and become a hero.

When I'm directing, I can look at something that I wrote and say, "This doesn't make sense." There's a lot more intuition and gut involved.

We live our lives with hope, intentions, and actions. Without hope, there will be no intention. Without intention, there will be no action.

For many people, depression is an abrupt change in an otherwise full and happy life. It emerges suddenly and devastates by its very strangeness and pathology.

Most would probably call it a dumb idea, but considering my wants it was a good idea.

By the by, who ever knew a man who never read or wrote neither who hadn't got some small back parlour which he would call a study!

You can cage the songbird, but you can't make her sing. And you can trap the free bird, but you'll have to clip her wings.

The nourishment of Cezanne's awkward apples is in the tenderness and alertness they awaken inside us.

You think I alienate myself from society? Of course I alienate myself from society. It’s the only way I know of not being constantly reminded of all the ways I’m alienated from society.

Can't one human being not like another human being? Can't we all just not get along?

If I had a dog that was sick as often as you are, I'd put it down," he observed kindly.

He was always thinking of his brother's soul, or of the souls of those who differed with him in opinion: it is a sort of comfort which many of the serious give themselves.