Kayfabe is kind of a code. To break kayfabe is to let people know that the punch was not real and that the match was scripted.

I really love Durham more than any place I've ever been; some small towns can be really provincial and strangling, but Durham is the best city in the world.

I always worry that I'm a dilettante: I know something about lots of things but don't have exhaustive knowledge of much.

[Robert] Aikman would write horror stories that weren't gore, they weren't slashers, and they weren't monster stories either. He called them ghost stories. The main thing about them was the vibe. It was really disquieting. He wanted to sketch the scene so that you could see it and know the characters and get a feel for the motion - and then ask yourself why and not get a final answer. Leave something that itches. I loved that!

What's funny is that people think, "Well there has to be something more than wrestling, because wrestling has such an absurd quality to it." But if you tell a love story, people don't ask what else is in there. They say, "Oh, it's just a love story." All stories have many levels, but these ones show their hand and say, "You might want to look a little deeper."

Gender relations are a sad story of men talking trash about women all over the world.

When all my friends insisted that they were feeling jaded, it struck me as an affected pose. To me, everything is always new.