Being on a movie set is like one long financial crisis.

I'm not making any plans. I'm just going to let the universe surprise me.

People try to keep their past, like kind of holding on to their past. Every Springsteen song talks about that.

I was never a joiner. I tried - I had people I admired and liked and wanted to hang with, but I ended up starting a theatre company and that took me back to Chicago... I guess I wasn't a scenester in the end. Something must have worked out right, as I'm still here - but I'm only a binge socialite.

I have a good friend who's a Texas girl; Texas girls are a whole different breed.

Poe had this curious kind of alchemical courage, where he took all the terrible things and terrors that happened in his life, all this shame and fear and pain, and turned them into great works of art. He was a complex, brilliant person who was just wired too tight.

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