Went:
Two days after my attempt, someone close to me, someone whose opinion I valued, said, "I have to love you less now. To protect myself."
And I thought, "I get it. I understand. it's only fair. it's what I deserve."
Their words haunted me. Silenced me. Right though graduation, and beyond.
"I have to love you less now."
Wentworth Miller delivers a speech at the conference...
Two days after my attempt, someone close to me, someone whose opinion I valued, said, "I have to love you less now. To protect myself."
And I thought, "I get it. I understand. it's only fair. it's what I deserve."
Their words haunted me. Silenced me. Right though graduation, and beyond.
"I have to love you less now."

Almost 20 years later, that was the first line of dialogue in the first time scene in the first feature film I ever wrote.