I was thinking that people have to believe you're crazy in order to take you seriously as an artist. If you're wandering the streets, talking in gibberish, nobody ever asks you to change anything about your art because there's no context for people to look at what you do.

I'm still very affected and moved by their music - maybe in a way that's different from someone who grew up around it.

In nature, if a cell gets too big, it divides. You can't come up with a set of rules that's going to work for 350 million people. You're just not.

The key is, if youre not monkeying around with the script, then everything usually goes pretty well.

When things go right it's hard to figure out why, but when things go wrong it's really easy.

My experience over the years with working with people who are not actors or not trained actors is that you have to get to know them well enough to see what they have that's translatable onto the screen. So you're constantly calibrating to play to their strengths. And the key is to never ask them to do things that are beyond their abilities or are really far away from who they are at their core.

If you're sitting around thinking what other people think about your work, you'll just become paralysed.