There's nothing I love more than a great truth-is-stranger-than-fiction story.

In college, I had a big fixation with Southern Gothic literature. Flannery O'Connor, I read every word she's ever written.

Myth is very powerful and fiction is very powerful.

For me personally, I love art and artists of all mediums and we've seen madness is more often than not present in the greatest painters, poets, writers, and songwriters in history.

In terms of legend, people do have a need, but I think you can't have a legend without the work or the art that comes before it.

When work resonates with a person, whether it is literature or film or music, then they want to know more about the artist. That's very natural.

When I read any book, if it's really good I get lost in the writing whether it's fiction or non-fiction. I'm in the story not thinking about who wrote it.

What is fiction or cinema if not escape?

You always want to unmask the person and find out who they are - that feeling of wanting what you can't have.

The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists

The practice of radical forgiveness, the extension of compassion-this is grace.

sometimes try not to judge, not to think ...& let the situation speak because wisdom lies there.

Experience tells you what to do confidence allows you to do it.

Every collaboration with a new person is like when you take a bin of Legos and dump them on the floor. All of the pieces to work with are right there. A floor full of Legos is full of possibilities.

For the first time ever, a black Republican woman has been elected to Congress. President Obama told her, 'You are all set. This country never turns against a black anything.'

I really dont like the idea of people knowing what I am doing. I find telling everybody what you had for breakfast is really uninspiring.

Being famous is like a dream come true but it's really difficult because you lose your freedom. I don't want to lose being a kid.

Most of our oldest memories are the product of repeated rehearsal and reconstruction.