Time off from the news is always something I welcome.

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.

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I love walking down the street and seeing faces and drama and happiness and sadness and dirt and cleanliness.

Nothing is more boring than some old person going on and on about the way things used to be.

As soon as somebody falls in love, all the wits seem to dribble out of the bottom of his head.

I get totally out of myself. It's the closest I come to not existing, I think, which is the best - which is to me attractive.

Montefusco bare-hands it and throws him out. That grounder will make you a traveling salesman in a hurry!

War can only be qualified by its object, and there is neither foreign war nor civil war, there is only just or unjust war.

Come children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.

I spent my teens and early 20s shopping almost exclusively at thrift stores.