Crap has always happened, crap is happening, and crap will continue to happen.
My father worked for the railroad, and whenever a train crashed, we would go as a family and steal food from the boxcars. One year we stole a case of butterscotch pudding that was for export to Israel. It took us years to get through.
Since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because it's the only way they can get anything really finished.
'Romance' is based on my entire creative process. I fall in love with an idea, obsess over it, isolate myself with it, and when I eventually introduce it to my friends, they all tell me that it's stupid.
So many of our enormous emotional crises are lived through the media. They're lived through movies; they're lived through what we watch on television - they're not actual events in our life.
Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying?
My private history in terms of people in my life who are dead is very easy to discuss. I don't feel those people can be threatened or intruded upon now. But I am enormously protective of the people who are currently in my life, my existing friends and family. That is where the curtain is drawn.
I thought 'Fight Club' was great as David Fincher's version.
David Fincher is a genius.
People said that 'Fight Club' would be impossible to turn into a movie, but I think David Fincher loved that challenge.
I was born in 1962, and it seems that throughout my entire life the world has demanded peace but maintained conflict.
I love the power of words - no music or special effects - and I want to demonstrate that power.
Sometimes the very best way to deal with unpleasant things is to depict them in ways that allow people to laugh at them and destroy the power of unsayable things, rather than refusing to acknowledge them.
I think that I am responsible for the death of thousands of things and for the misery of thousands of people, just through the things that I buy and how I live my life, and these are not things that ever deserved to die.
Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.
Only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit.
One thing I really envy about my friends who have kids is that as their children develop, they're able to revisit their own developmental stages and recognise themselves and undo a lot of things they decided.
Fiction is no longer the dominant storytelling device of our time. In the 19th century it worked great, and fiction was the king, but it's not the king any more.
In books, you can just wallow in dialogue, and you can just wallow in written words. In screenplays, every line has to serve the purpose of the line that's implied before it and the line that's implied after it. Maybe five lines have to do the work of fifty lines.
Every woman is just a different kind of problem.
