If you can imagine missing feeling sad, it's the only thing worse than pain.

Fellini was [David] Lynch's master and his biggest idol, and he believed in Fellini's view that film is a dream, it's not reality. It's all about delving into the unconscious.

After working with so many great actors and acting students in film school, it was a whole other thing working with Luke [Kirby].

When you encounter that first love, a young love, you do feel that your story is original. You are utterly convinced that your story has never been told before, because it hasn't.

If people are saying that somehow their connection is going to be detrimental to their health, of course they are going to reject that idea, because that's the power of falling like that.

Love is the most universal experience. There is nothing more important than love, there is nothing more meaningful than love, and there is nothing more human in people's relationships than love.

Emotions are what drives everyone. You get up in the morning and go do something because the emotion drives you to it.

I have been happy, though in a dream.I have been happy-and I love the theme:Dreams! in their vivid colouring of lifeAs in that fleeting, shadowy, misty strife

A situation in itself is not powerful

Not all writers are crazy. Only the ones who are serious enough about their craft.

My father used to say that it's never too late to do anything you wanted to do. And he said, 'You never know what you can accomplish until you try.'

Isolation of the caretaker role is a real danger. That way lies sadness.

Inconsiderate, rude behavior drives me nuts. And I guess the inconsiderate rudeness of social ineptitude definitely fuels my work.

I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn't irascible.

Nihil est sine ratione. There is nothing without a reason.

Meetings are by definition a concession to deficient organization. For one either meets or one works.

The paternal hearth, the rallying-place of the affections.