What is fiction or cinema if not escape?

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

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

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.

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

Things don't matter, people do

Just because you are happy it does not mean that the day is perfect but that you have looked beyond its imperfections

In 1969 America put the man on the moon.In 2016 America put the man in the women's bathroom.

For a lot of people, God lives in their Bibles and they open it when they feel He has something to say.

Rest your eyes and then read till they fall out of your head.

Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like.

Madness is the WHO staring into the abyss and denying it is there. Madness is an ostrich who sticks her head in the sand while a pack of hyenas closes around her. - Lanky Man with green eyes

If the wind rises it can push us against the flood when it comes.

I was not a tribalist when I had a long-standing and intimate relationship with Miss Bianca Onoh, an Igbo lady.

That's the good part of dying; when you've nothing to lose, you run any risk you want.