When I look at the film, unlike when you see it, I'll be thinking of the scenes that were cut.

It started out very innocently for us, ... In the first place, you don't imagine you're ever really going to sell the novel to anyone or really sell the screenplay to anyone.

This is one crowd I really don't want to disappoint.

I don't own the personal hubris to assume that any book I'm writing is going to get published.

We know everyone here, ... We won't know anyone in New York.

I think for both of us, and, hopefully, for all of us, we wonder, 'Do the dead view us? Do they forgive us our sins? Do they accept us? Do they shepherd us? ... So that aspect was in the book and the film, both.

Write a lot and read a lot and expect to give over your life completely to the passion of writing, ... I think if people are not willing to do that, they are forever doomed to be amateurs.

To have this advance screening in Cody truly means a lot to me.

Certainly all of our lives are unfinished, ... how they must learn to forgive what they perceive as wrong in their life, whether that wrong was committed by other people or by some form of cosmology.