People aren't going to throw the kind of money at certain people that they used to.

I think good art, if I could be pretentious enough to say, I think good art deals with the micro to explain the macro.

My mum is incredibly intelligent.

When you become a parent, you look at your parents differently. You look at being a child differently. It's an awakening, a revelation that you have.

No one wants to be pretentious about what they do or take it seriously, because that is just weird.

When you see the carrot at the end of the stick, what do you do to get it? These kinds of things that come up, that come up in the story of Capote writing "In Cold Blood," and when you see the movie, you'll see what I'm talking about.

Success isn't what makes you happy. It really isn't. Success is doing what makes you happy and doing good work and hopefully having a fruitful life. If I've felt like I've done good work, that makes me happy. The success part of it is all gravy.