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.

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.

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

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

What is fiction or cinema if not escape?

When I read any book, if it's really good I get lost in the writing whether it's fiction or non-fiction. I'm in the story not thinking about who wrote it.