I was an English-literature major, and that's all about stories and narratives.

I think that in big-budget movies there's a lot of other stuff going on besides acting, like special effects.

I think acting came later in life when I went to college. I started out there. I wasn't a big star in the school plays or anything. I guess I just really liked stories. I was an English-literature major, and that's all about stories and narratives. Film and theater are very powerful storytelling mediums. You sit in a dark room and enter another world. I love that as a member of the audience, and I sort of wanted to get on the other side.

I find Hollywood really toxic.

Working with a green screen is easy. It's just like being a kid. But it's not nearly as satisfying.

There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in people.

The Pagan model of religion because, in the Pagan model, there were lots and lots of Gods and Goddesses. They were all incredibly beautiful and there were statues of them everywhere, which is the equivalent of magazines, or whatever, today. And they were fallible, which is different from being mono-, you know, Jewish or Islam (where) you have the infallible, monotheistic God.