It's very nice to have someone that you can have a completely abstract conversation with and leave the room, feel like everything's fine, and then realize that if you pick it apart, you have absolutely no idea what either of you said.

Jack Nicholson is a textbook actor who's very intuitive. He is absolutely brilliant at going as far as you can go, always pushing to the edge, but still making it seem real.

Things you grew up watching, they just stay with you. They form what you like to do.

I am not a dark person and I don't consider myself dark.

That's what I always loved about [Federico] Fellini's films: You see the weird joy of the weird filmmaking family and the abstract craziness that goes along with it, and there's something about it that's quite beautiful.

But she knows she has a curse on her, a curse she cannot win. For if someone gets too close to her, the pins stick further in.

Everything in this room is edible. Even I'm edible. But, that would be called canibalism. It is looked down upon in most societies.