River’s profound understanding of this situation [in A Thing Called Love] mirrored his own often painful relationships with the women he’d loved and who’d loved him. I didn’t know her, the young woman he had been going with just before we began preparing our picture. But the first evening we spent together, he told me of the dismay he felt at having just been told by her that she had been unfaithful. Of course, he said, he had been unfaithful to her, and she had known it - but the other way around really bothered him. He went right on, however, to justify her behavior, to see it from her point of view, how she was protecting herself from the pain of his acts. I didn’t say much, and River talked out his ambivalent feelings in a very mature way.

— Peter Bogdanovitch on River Phoenix, possibly (probably) referring to his relationship with Sue Solgot  (via virgineunuchother)

(Source: desaparecidos, via griever4leon)