We make a contract within ourselves as actors or directors or writers about how much of ourselves we let into projects. You can actually figure out before you work on something how much blood you will have to let emotionally.

There is extraordinary similarities between the Midwest in America and Europe in that there is this sense of vast, open sky and loneliness and cold.

You have to work with what you are given, even in Shakespeare. we have our form and it is important that we free ourselves through it.

The camera is interested in what you are thinking as opposed to just what you are doing or saying.

We make a contract within ourselves as actors or directors or writers about how much of ourselves we let into projects. You can actually figure out before you work on something how much blood you will have to let emotionally.

I think that I have sold out sometimes.

Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well.