Some ideas, like what you're going to do with your life, take time to form.

I think good theaters are really important. They allow you to exist in a space with other people.

I think when you have a character as richly drawn, I suppose then there are subconscious, mental notes that you've made.

What I find interesting is this ricochet effect, that the audience perceives the work and then does something with it, throws it back to the world, and there's an ongoing interaction between work and audience, which doesn't belong to the artist anymore - from the moment you release it, it doesn't belong to anybody.

In the current climate, things that are true, brave human stories become political.

I'm not dressing for anyone else. I don't really subscribe to other people's idea of what is beautiful. I just want to feel good.

We change people's lives, at the risk of our own. We change countries, governments, history, gravity. After gravity, culture is the thing that holds humanity in place, in an otherwise constantly shifting and, let's face it, tiny outcrop in the middle of an infinity of nowhere.