This is the emotional thing, you see - you must galvanize people, so they want to be completely alive and live forever, or the next thing to it. And out of that comes art, then, and survival through emotion.

I think we're doing a dreadful job of educating.

The Internet is a big distraction. It's distracting, it's meaningless; it's not real. It's in the air somewhere.

Writing is supposed to be difficult, agonizing, a dreadful exercise, a terrible occupation.

Acting without knowing takes you right off the cliff.

We need our Arts to teach us how to breathe

And I saw then and there you take a man half-bad and a women half-bad and put their two good halves together and you got one human all good to share between.