You always want to unmask the person and find out who they are - that feeling of wanting what you can't have.

In terms of legend, people do have a need, but I think you can't have a legend without the work or the art that comes before it.

Myth is very powerful and fiction is very powerful.

You always want to unmask the person and find out who they are - that feeling of wanting what you can't have.

In college, I had a big fixation with Southern Gothic literature. Flannery O'Connor, I read every word she's ever written.

What is fiction or cinema if not escape?

For me personally, I love art and artists of all mediums and we've seen madness is more often than not present in the greatest painters, poets, writers, and songwriters in history.