Nick McDonell

I'm not good enough to write about my friends, who are all brilliant and sophisticated.

I knew I loved writing, and I was raised by people who love books.

In the beginning of college I wanted to be an English major, but then I became interested in international relations.

There's never been anything I didn't love that I didn't connect with on a personal level because, to some degree, I projected upon it.

Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.

I think the main thing I remembered throughout all of filming it was just that she just was extremely self-destructive. I think everybody can relate to that a little bit. She doesn't like herself.