But no, I don't really like romantic comedies, so I don't really care. I never go see 'em.

Well, any time you do anything good, it's man versus himself, right? That's the art, the challenge.

I love these movies where it's just about the film. You don't have my face on the poster. It's all about the movie. I like that.

I think poets tell better history than historians. Historians lie all the time but the poets can get to truth of it.

I just love the process of working with other actors. It's like jamming with a musician, except it takes a little more effort to get to that place as an actor, because you have the cameras and lights and everything. But I love jamming with these people.

Poets are political, they have to be reflections of their times [because] they're living in their times... Poetry is political in that it's standing in opposition to fascism. Good poetry asks a bunch of questions and asks the audience to interact with themselves or see themselves in it; maybe you like it or you don't like it. But the fascist sort of stuff plays on your fears and tells you to jump on the party line and gives some simple excuses - blame this person.

I never wanted to come off as self-important.