258 Quotes About Interview

Hanging out is good historical methodology.

What disturbs and compels about pornography is not the sex, which is always a snooze, but that the medium addresses every social issue in the absolute wrong way. Not long after any social event or trend, a pornographic response emerges. It will be incredibly creepy and wrong headed, an underbelly view of public life via the worst excesses of capitalism in which the answer to every social problem is the commodification of desire.

When you stop viewing chaos as an end state to be avoided and start viewing it as the beginning and ongoing default state of most things in life then that becomes something that is either terrifying or incredibly liberating.

Your friends and family aren’t your audience and neither should they be.

I never attempt to write any message or moral into a plot because I find it comes out a little contrived. If you tackle any slice of life faithfully then life will speak to people without you having to spell anything out.

The business world and adult society only really made sense to me if they were supposed to be funny, but I didn’t see many other people laughing, so I started inventing my own worlds where life seemed more how it should be.

Gay James: Well, why don’t you stop playing games and give us a little of your private self?Straight James: Kind of impossible, don’t you think? As soon as I share it, it becomes public.

You can never tell the whole story

Sometimes I open a book that’s so beautiful I have to shut it because it hurts me. I can’t stand it. It’s like, Oh no! Oh no! Oh no! This is going to drive me into my own heart. A day or two days later I’m saying, All right, and I just surrender to it: Do it to me. Go ahead. I want it. I don’t want it. I want it. I don’t want it.