The patient needs to believe that they can keep the fire while being medicated. The doctors must tell them, "I understand that you experienced someth….

I want the audience to think about how many people are hiding in the shadows with the condition. I want the film to take away the stigma of thinking ….

When you encounter that first love, a young love, you do feel that your story is original. You are utterly convinced that your story has never been t….

Fellini was [David] Lynch's master and his biggest idol, and he believed in Fellini's view that film is a dream, it's not reality. It's all about del….

If they could say that to their patients, it could be a way to treatment, as in both working on it and preserving it. That could give a patient the f….

Love is the most universal experience. There is nothing more important than love, there is nothing more meaningful than love, and there is nothing mo….

Vincent van Gogh was sane when he painted that piece of art, because when you you feel the mania and depression, you have all the heaven and hell you….

I feel much more emotion than I did before, and more meaningful emotion and richer emotion than when I was manic. I'm able to experience meaningful t….

Emotions are what drives everyone. You get up in the morning and go do something because the emotion drives you to it..

Do you think you can love too much? Or experience too much beauty, at the cost of too much pain? Do you think when art is defined by expressing so mu….

After working with so many great actors and acting students in film school, it was a whole other thing working with Luke [Kirby]..

If people are saying that somehow their connection is going to be detrimental to their health, of course they are going to reject that idea, because ….

If you can imagine missing feeling sad, it's the only thing worse than pain..

If I were to peruse a survey of label options, as they exist now, they either sound like a time bomb disorder or manic depression or Bipolar divide o….

David Lynch was actually the one who first inspired me to become a filmmaker when I was in high school. His films just took me to that dream place th….

That is the beauty when I discovered the label 'Touched With Fire.' That book defined it for me, I could be that. And we just happen to be living in ….

I want people to see the beauty of that condition through the eyes of the characters. In doing that, they can allow people who have the condition to ….

Imagine having love for someone and being told, "You're not allowed to experience that love because you're not allowed to experience pain." It's a di….