Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.

I like the detail work of telling a story in small pieces, as is done in movie-making, and also the long leap of faith needed to see a theatre performance through each night. Both require focus and self-discipline.

Perhaps the itinerant upbringing my brothers and I had has something to do with my continued interest in perspectives different from my own.

You can't really go back to where you came from. I don't think any of us can.

We all experience many freakish and unexpected events - you have to be open to suffering a little. The philosopher Schopenhauer talked about how out of the randomness, there is an apparent intention in the fate of an individual that can be glimpsed later on. When you are an old guy, you can look back, and maybe this rambling life has some through-line. Others can see it better sometimes. But when you glimpse it yourself, you see it more clearly than anyone.

I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.

Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.