I am not a sun person at all. I think it's a cancerous poison and I don't want it touching me.

The desire for love is universal but that has never meant it’s worthy of respect. It’s not admirable to want love, it just is.

People are complicated. Personally I don't go in for puritanical people.

Danzon is my favorite Cuban music, played by a traditional string orchestra with flute and piano. It's very formally structured but romantic music, which derives from the French-Haitian contradance.

I do study Marcel Proust, for multiple technical virtuosities but also his swerve, as you say, between characters and in scenes. Certain films can help for that, too, in terms of understanding how multiple conversations at a table, or in a room, can take place and remain separate, and dissonant, and also gather themselves, accidentally, into a collective rhythm and an affect.

I'm a very interior person. I love silence. I revel in it. I'm happy that way.

The kids I knew growing up who worked on bikes all loved the smell of gas. It is the liquid agent for speed.