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They wordlessly excused each other for not loving each other as much as they had planned.
I’m totally not kidding. … Life is too short. This is all too hard to do to actually be kidding about the whole thing.
Now began the part of her life where she was just very beautiful. Except for nothing.
Common sense and the truth should feel authorless, writ by time itself.
The Shared Patio (2005)
It was a tiny sound but it woke me up because it was a human sound.
I wanted to make the movie feel like life feels to me — and life feels both sad and dark and confusing and more than hopeful — it feels like something totally incredible could happen at any moment and with no explanation.
On her film Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005)
Now praise the sky and praise the light within each person under the sky. It's okay to be unsure. But praise, praise, praise.
The Shared Patio (2005)
I think there’s something spiritual in a very day-to-day, mundane existence. It’s impossible to articulate, and it’s happening now, almost like a perverse secret. . . . That’s always sort of fascinating to me.
That is my problem with life, I just rush through it, like I'm being chased. Even things whose whole point is slowness, like drinking relaxing tea. When I drink relaxing tea I suck it down like I'm in a contest for who can drink relaxing tea the quickest.
What I like best is the kind of complicated messed up truth, you know … the one that's so imperfect that you know it's true.
Pretty Cool People interview (2007)
Do you have doubts about life? Are you unsure if it is really worth the trouble? Look at the sky: that is for you. Look at each person's face as you pass them on the street: those faces are for you.
The Shared Patio (2005)
Since I started making art, I’ve always had some kind of project that was really about and for other people, because I think I just need that balance to feel sane myself — you know?
Pretty Cool People interview (2007)
At this point, I’ve come to realize that where you are, the space you’re in, what you wear, this one body that you’re in for this life — those of course matter because you are really here, you’re not just an idea in your head. And there is something profound about noticing again and again that you’re here.