"Poetry is a way of always paying attention to the world for me; a way of letting the world stick to me instead of being anxious or estranged, just being present in the world."

“People get really caught up in their own trips.”

“After Memory Keepers Daughter, it took me a few months to shut out the world. I really had to turn off the Internet and sort of cloister myself away from the world again and sink into that psychic space to write again.”

“Sometimes you have a period piece where you have to research around it but, if the writers have done their homework well enough, the information is all in the script.”

“There's some people who are just very dynamic about social life, and it can be some pretty crazy stuff, but you end up meeting people you like.”

“Imagination makes you see all sorts of things.”

“Everyone's different. I mean, some people write journals for their characters and stuff, but that was never really my area.”

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“As an entrepreneur you are often failing as much as you are succeeding. You are falling on your face as much as you are stepping up and moving forward. You need resilience to get up, re-gather, think of what you are going to do next, not letting that misstep pull you down. Next, you cannot be afraid of looking stupid or not being perfect. You have to be okay with sticking your neck out, being willing to fall down, and knowing that you are more measured over time about how you are getting back up.”

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“Joe E. Lewis said, 'Money doesn't buy happiness but it calms the nerves.' And that is how I feel about a film being well-received.”