PEREZ: Yeah, I will second that because the amount of folks that come up to me and tell me, "When I read the book, I was this close to taking my own life," or, "When I saw your film, it made me not want to kill myself anymore," and those are the moments that are really important to me because I do — and my friends will tell you, my family — I'll stop on the street with somebody and chat with them for five to 10 minutes. I'm completely en route to somewhere and have to be somewhere, but when somebody stops me, I'm like, this movie means so much to people — and to me and to everybody who made it hopefully — but I do want to lend an ear and hear their story because at the end of the day, it is a love story and I think that's why they're falling in love with it. I think it's also a testament to Casey's brilliance as a writer, and then they gave us the book and there was such a huge groundswell of support for it. And so Nick and I knew going into it that we had some tough shoes to fill.
i hope i never ever ever see this image while im high or it will also straight up kill me. it would make me so scared my skeleton would run away And id be a boneless scared heap on the ground
sometimes im like "wow holy shit im being really fucking annoying. i should stop talking" and then i pull out my magic 8 ball and it says "youve always been annoying and your friends chose to talk you anyways. youll be fine" and im like wow thanks magic 8 ball. and then the ogre attacks me
"i hate small talk. you are a stranger. why the fuck would i want to talk about the weather with you"
i may be a deeply introverted and asocial individual, but even i recognize how many relationships have started with a single innocuous question, forged in the fire of an ember lit by humoring it with an answer.
humans make small talk, because small talk can grow.