"Short Cuts. A movie I found as engrossing as anything we watched during our New York years. It begat my reading What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, followed by everything else I could find by Raymond Carver, the author whose work impacted my early writing as much as anyone I was reading then, with nods to Andre Dubus, and as always, Jim Carroll.
"If Naked Lunch was the movie that solidified for me how much I needed to write, Short Cuts is the film which confirmed it."
~~ from After Hours: Scorsese, Grief and the Grammar of Cinema by Ben Tanzer
