“It is just as interesting that he wrote it when he was a teenager because it does feel like—and this is probably one of the reasons I liked it so much at a young age—it feels so much like the ultimate sixteen-year-old film. And I mean this so much as a compliment.”

“It’s obviously made at the absolute Everest of megalomania, the absolute peak of, “I can do nothing wrong, and I must just push myself.” And that’s, of course, one of the things celebrated in the film. You do see a film made at the absolute edge of sanity, really.”

“His perspective on the relationship changed, but that might be another one of the reasons why the film lands so hard for me. I think we all feel like we’ve learned our lesson at the end of each relationship, and then we start the next one and fuck everything up again.”

“…there’s a sense that each step that each character takes, they realize that they’ve just kind of signed their own death sentence. They’ve become these outlaws; they’ve crossed the line.”