Art was always for me an escape and a way to relate to the world around me.

I was raised in a heavily Catholic family. Early and consistent encounters with mysticism.

I find the constraints of drama actually freeing: It brings everything down to character and action.

We live in a culture that has a real hard time distinguishing fiction from reality. Even when they're told something is fiction.

I read The Conspiracy Against the Human Race and found it incredibly powerful writing. For me as a reader, it was less impactful as philosophy than as one writers ultimate confessional: an absolute horror story, where the self is the monster.

I didn't come to Hollywood to be subservient to anyone else's vision.

Whatever I watched, whatever I loved in 36 years of life on Earth, probably had some influence on me.