I felt lethal, on the verge of frenzy. My nightly bloodlust overflowed into my days and I had to leave the city. My mask of sanity was a victim of impending slippage. This was the bone season for me and I needed a vacation.
The seeds of love have taken hold and if we won’t burn together, I’ll burn alone.
The images I had were of people being driven mad by living in the city. Images of parents who were so hungry and unfulfilled that they ate their own children.
Baby, when you were young and your heart was an open book, you used to say live and let live. You know you did, you know you did, you know you did.
You do not write a novel for praise, or thinking of your audience. You write for yourself; you work out between you and your pen the things that intrigue you.
Disappear Here. The syringe fills with blood. You’re a beautiful boy and that’s all that matters. Wonder if he’s for sale. People are afraid to merge. To merge.
I wasn’t acting on passion. I was simply acting.
Price. You’re priceless.
What keeps me interested – and it always does – is how can she be a bad actress on film but a good one in reality?
And as the elevator descents, passing the second floor, and the first floor, going even father down, I realize that the money doesn’t matter. That all that does is that I want to see the worst.
Exploitation is a harsh word, I know that, but on a certain level, to me that is the central Hollywood story.
I have no problems or issues with screenwriting in general.
Unless you’re the director on the movie, or putting up the money for the movie, you really don’t have a lot of control.
No one is drawn to writing about being happy or feelings of joy.
I think basically most men are misogynistic.
I think my sensibility is very literary; all my books were built as books, and I wasn’t thinking about them being movies.
I went to college in Vermont, and then stayed in the East Coast.
I totally relate to Tom Cruise. He’s not crazy, it’s just the litany of the mid-life crisis.
People can get accustomed to anything, right? Habit does things to people.
I feel like I’m not smart enough to answer the questions I’m asked.