i’ll always love you ‘cause we grew up together and you helped make me who i am. i just wanted you to know there will be a piece of you in me always, and i’m grateful for that. whatever someone you become, and wherever you are in the world, i’m sending you love. you’re my friend to the end.

— her (2013)

           ❝…If you could understand ㅤㅤㅤThat I can barely breathe the air is thin ㅤㅤㅤI fear the fall and where we’ll land. ㅤㅤㅤTake what you need say your goodbyes ㅤㅤㅤI gave you everything ㅤㅤㅤAnd it’s a beautiful crime.❞

As a female director I love women. I’m kind of obsessed with my actors, I love them so much. I’m just like, the more they’re beautiful, more they’re clever, more I want to feel them, more I want to respect them. It’s weird to be a female [who would want to] film women not in a beautiful way. I think it’s strange.

“With the face tattoo, I regretted it instantly. I said, ‘This looks ridiculous. I can’t do this to me, or your movie. I regret it.’ [Derek] said, ‘That’s what people do with face tattoos, they regret them. This movie’s about consequences, so now you’re stuck with it.’ I was upset at the time, but I was glad that he held my feet to the fire that time, because it did give me this sense of shame that I don’t think I could have acted in the film. I felt this sense where I didn’t want to be photographed, or even look at myself in the mirror.” Ryan Gosling