I love stories about people who are smart enough to know that what they're doing is destroying them, but that knowing that doesn't help them.
In my teens, I fell in love with the movies.
I cannot tell you that I ever fell in love with the theater as an audience. I fell in love with the theater as an actor for a period of time, but I have struggled as an audience, and I struggle more now than then. I was always a movie guy.
There is no shame in my saying that we all want to be loved by someone. As I look back over my life in romance, I don't feel I've ever had that.
Love is a mess, at best, and I figure it can be very real in spite of all the things people try to attach to it.
That on a romantic level, if you feel it about somebody and it's pure, it means that they do too.
I like to believe that love is a reciprocal thing, that it can't really be felt, truly, by one.