“The feeling of death is not as peaceful as they make it sound in movies and books. It was frightening and empty...I never want to feel it again.”

“Death doesn't frighten me, except to make me feel that life is ephemeral.”

“I said it before and I’ll say it again: books are dead, plays are dead, poems are dead: there’s only movies.Music is still okay, because music is sound track. Ten, fifteen years ago, every arts student wanted to be a novelist or a playwright. I’d be amazed if you could find a single one now with such a dead-end ambition. They all want to make movies. Not write movies. You don’t write movies. You make movies.”

“...I think a book adaptation doesn't have to be just like the book, it has to feel like the book. That's what you want. You wand to get the feeling from the movie that you got from the book, and you want the characters to evoke the characters that you fell in love with." -Nina Jacobson”

“You can wet the rim of a glass and run your finger around the rim and it will make a sound. This is what I feel like: this sound of glass. I feel like the word shatter. I want to be with someone.”

“How frighteningly few are the persons whose death would spoil our appetite and make the world seem empty.”