A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again

his career makes it clear that he is indeed, in the literal Cahiers du Cinema sense, an auteur, willing to make the sorts of sacrifices for creative control that real auteurs have to make—choices that indicate either raging egotism or passionate dedication or a childlike desire to run the whole sandbox, or all three.

In other words, I arrived at my first professional tournament with the pathetic deluded pride that attends ignorance.

to sell sugary crud to people whose identity is nothing but mass consumption.

watching him practice it is like watching a great artist casually sketch something.

that strange mix of caution and abandon we call courage.

nothing sickens me like seeing on-screen some of the very parts of myself I’ve gone to the movies to try to forget about.

a sky so blue here it hurts.

The air’s like wet wool.

too many choices and no chooser’s manual,