The best work comes from people who are motivated by crisis. When something stops their original idea, they respond by coming up with something even better.

My style hero was Batman. Now it's Tony Stark.

That's our job as artists is to be honest about what we're feeling. And what we're feeling is not always going to be perfect. Sometimes it's going to be controversial. Sometimes it's going to piss a couple of people off. Sometimes it's going to motivate people. Sometimes it's going to inspire.

The people have allowed me to - they've respected my choice of wanting to be like, a little, you know, a baby alchemist, and just trying to mix different cultures together and things that I think are interesting.

You get used to it when you feel like you're an artist.

The simplest way to say it is that I think we're all dealt these cards in life, but the cards in and of themselves don't read one way or the other. It's up to you to home in and cultivate whatever you've got in your hand.

I'm like most people. We just concentrate on the present. I live right where the film is going through the film projector and it hits the light.