When applied to politics and taken to its extreme, kitsch is the mask of death. Fascism was all aesthetics. There was no core principle to it. There was no truth to it.

In the United States, we can talk about ISIS, but we can't talk about Palestine.

A lot of people are not meant to be together.

Radical Islam and US exceptionalism are in bed with each other. They're like lovers, methinks.

The more you expose yourself as a celebrity, the less interesting you are to watch in your work, because if you're putting yourself out there all the time, you're not holding anything back.

I don't agonize over decisions as much these days. The criteria of what's important to me is clear.

All my romantic stories are a scrambled version of that first one.