When work resonates with a person, whether it is literature or film or music, then they want to know more about the artist. That's very natural.

There's nothing I love more than a great truth-is-stranger-than-fiction story.

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.

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

When work resonates with a person, whether it is literature or film or music, then they want to know more about the artist. That's very natural.

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

Myth is very powerful and fiction is very powerful.