Art is not created in a vacuum. That experience is something to be shared with a group of people, and to be moved in that way.

I find that I have no problem getting a table at a restaurant when I walk in.

I listen to music cinematically. I think about music and how it would make me feel when it's put to an image, a moving image, and I love it.

'The Portrait of Dorian Grey' beautifully articulates how the altruistic part of ourselves clashes with our essentially narcissistic state.

Tarantino and Jackson is like Scorsese and DeNiro, and their silent communication.

We want to see ourselves reflected in our heroes. Unfortunately most of us don't look like Arnold Schwarzenegger.

I wrote about wasting time, which I suppose is a part of the great human journey. We're supposed to wallow, to go through the desert without water for a long time so that when we finally drink it, we'll truly need it and we won't spill a drop. It's about being present.