My whole thing is that I want to explore why you read books, what's the purpose of reading, and maybe that it's not that cool to hate something just because it's popular.

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.

No rain can't get the rainbow.

Know that blank pages feel the urge of the ink as much as tears paint a different pain, changes

We dream primarily the same way that we have consciousness of the world for the same reason. Basically, that our brains evolve to simulate reality and to control what's happening around us.

Action and contemplation are very close companions; they live together in one house on equal terms. Martha and Mary are sisters.

Once you really commence to see things, then you really commence to feel things.

Everyone has a bad hair day; the trick is not to have one on picture day.

Disasters have no mercy hours where they stop visiting the people; for them, all hours are favourite and legitimate to visit!

I have had a few turning points, the first day I entered a gymnastics school at age 6.

Never before in human history has more bad information been available to more people.

Japan's biggest problems are conservatism and cowardice.