...you can hate a place with all your heart and soul and still be homesick for it.

My dad was a cotton buyer and cotton buyers always considered themselves superior to the rest of the world.

Perhaps where text slides toward ambiguity, film inclines to specificity. A novel contains as many versions of itself as it has readers, whereas a film's final cut vaporizes every other way it might have been made.

I think I would go further into fine arts, I think, if I were to continue.

It is conflict overall that mires people in poverty. That is the first law of development.

I don't like to make fluffy little songs, but now I want to make some light songs.