Before we're born we have all of us been dead for millions of years...but we're always afraid of going back...

— Leonardo Donofrio

Identity was a liquid state, ever interchangeable, and adaptable to its surroundings... It was better to not have favorites - a snake didn't mourn when it had to shed its skin.

— Leonardo Donofrio

Identity was just a box people liked to put themselves in, a mast to tether to in a storm, a security blanket.

— Leonardo Donofrio

Rome and New York were impressive, but they knew they were. They had the beauty of a vain woman who had squeezed herself into her favorite dress after hours of careful self worship. There was a raw, feral beauty about this landscape that was totally unselfconscious but no less real... There was no pomp or vanity here; this was an innocent, natural beauty, the best kind, like a woman first thing in the morning, lit up by the sun streaming through a window, who doesn't quite believe it when you tell her how beautiful she is.

— Leonardo Donofrio

Village life gently swirled around them, with the perpetual ebb and flow of people, scurrying in every direction. The village was a living, organic entity, with blood flowing through its veins, and with a definite pulse and heartbeat. It had its own distinct personality and its own dark caustic humor, and was constantly processing and regurgitating information through its winding, meandering streets.

— Leonardo Donofrio

Why is it when we were kids we looked up at the stars... But now they seem to be looking down on us...?

— Leonardo Donofrio