“I must be very close to what I had to learn to move from fooling around with writing to actually producing professional stories.”

About a year after (my stories began being published), magazine editor George Scithers, suggested to me that since I was so new at being published.

There are a lot of aspiring writers out there who would like to know just that. Write that book.SFWW-I is that book. It’s the book I was looking for when I first started writing fiction.

The goal is not writing. The goal is being a human being writing.

Stories are not about ideas, gimmicks, or places. Stories are about people. People are about feelings!

As a child I used to watch clouds, and in them, see faces, castles, animals, dragons, and giants. It was a world of escape–fantasy; something to inject wonder and adventure into the mundane, regulated life of a middle-class boy leading a middle-class life.

If you work around at-risk teen students, actually tell them you love them and have faith in their success. No one tells them that. No one.

Actually I don’t remember being born, it must have happened during one of my black outs.

I gave him a bunch of ideas and then Vincent helped guide me and develop this particular film. I enjoy that rapport to have somebody else help guide me in my choices for the next film.

This film [ Blue is the Warmest Color] actually is the result of me talking with my producer Vincent [Maraval].

You never know if you can actually do something against all odds until you actually do it.

Everybody knows that I am not usually patient enough to actually sit down and watch one of my own films from the beginning to the end – I never do.

A lot of people can’t remember things because they weren’t actually there to begin with – they don’t take it all in.

Sometimes, love feels like a life or death situation. Losing true love is pretty much as bad as it gets, other than actually dying or losing good health. Most people know that. Most people can relate. It’s like the end of the world.