Here we are signing autographs for people who essentially know know how to write their name and are functionally literate. But if you cease to teach cursive writing, how does one know how to, I don’t know, replicate the Declaration of Independence? Or the orations of Cicero? Is it just going to be on the internet?

It's not good to meet you heroes. The humanity in them or the a**hole in them will bring it down. And you don't want to do that.

I'm finishing my Ph.D. in Italian Renaissance history.

Art has absolutely changed my life.

There is a good news and bad news about a remake. When you remake something, if you futz with the theme, you are in danger. Because people get it - they get the theme. They know what is galvanizing, what is energizing.

Television is an isolating experience, sadly enough. I'm sorry to say it. But as good as it ever gets, it's still isolating. You sit in your home and visit with no one.

When I go to the movies, I like romance, comedy, and thrillers. I hate gore.