We Tell Ourselves Stories In Order To

The Willingness To Accept Responsibility For One's Own Life Is The Source From Which Self-respect Springs.

Before I'd Written Movies, I Never Could Do Big Set-piece Scenes With A Lot Of Different Speakers - When You've Got Twelve People Around A Dinner Table Talking At Cross Purposes. I Had Always Been Impressed By Other People's Ability To Do That.

It Is Easy To See The Beginnings Of Things, And Harder To See The Ends.

There's A Lot Of Landscape I Never Would Have Described If I Hadn't Been Homesick. The Impulse Was Nostalgia.

It Occurs To Me That We Allow Ourselves To Imagine Only Such Messages As We Need To Survive.