I believe that the job of the novelist is to go out into the world and to bring back news of the human condition.

我专注于我能控制的事情。

Every frame counts, and every cut should serve the story.

I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape—the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn’t show.

我们终将死去，而这让我们成为幸运的人。

When you fail, that's when you get up and try again. There's no reason to just stay down.

心理学必须是一门观察的科学，而非推测。

Ethical practices are not negotiable in our industry.

The mind is a stream of processes, not a collection of objects.