The most valiant thing you can do as an artist is inspire someone else to be creative.

I do feel that even though I didn't grow up being a big sci-fi fan or comic books or superhero fan, I felt myself definitely gravitate towards these movies that have a high concept and yet they're giving you a moral dilemma within that.

That's sort of what I wanted to make fun of a little bit with Don Jon. And I think oftentimes, if you're going to talk about a sort of substantial topic like this, the best way to do it is with a sense of humor.

That you can be whatever you want to be, whoever you want to be, regardless of your gender.

Most scripts are bad. I read a lot of them.

"Music is something that professionals do and not something that I do." That's not natural. Music belongs to everybody.

Darkness is a lot of what art is and certainly in our community a lot of it is people sort of wrestling with their demons.