“Any useful diversion from someone’s attention to say watch this, listen to this — I take very seriously. If I’m going to ask them to take an hour to...
“My friends and I will be having a wonderful moment—sunset, driving back from Malibu—and they’re like, we all know you’re going to write a song about...
“I really felt myself in Catherine Keener and Julia Louis-Dreyfus. I was watching myself, in a way. We just got each other, there was a sisterhood...
“There is a system of laws that’s a web of disenfranchisement that no one really knows exists. Nine out of ten of the 70-80 million people with some...
“I’ve settled into myself a little more. I think that’s all you can hope for. I’m really grateful to have a job where you have to...
“To invite someone into your home feels very intimate. It’s like a fast track to intimacy, in a way that nothing else really is. People’s memories...
“Film is a medium where you are asking people to relate to it personally, so there’s an amount of projection that’s necessary in the audience...
“For me, there’s always a process of exiting a character. It doesn’t necessarily mean I let go of it; it actually feels like more of an absorption...
“Not having enough time feels like a very individual and personal experience, but it actually is an expression of the fact that we have to sell our...
“As a comedian, this one thing stuck with me early on: maybe if you were in a drama, you’d have more of a special energy that could help that...
“The idea that you could make something starts with a little flicker of audacity. That self-accreditation saying, ‘I think what I have to say...
“RRR is a platform where this journey is going to come. It’s a way of achieving what all the hardworking directors and people in the movie industry...
“Directing is the clearest embodiment of true joy from the arts that I’ve found. It’s the best use of me; the healthiest version of me...
“Gen Z is the mass shooting generation. It’s a staple of our collective identity. Some of the most significant moments of our collective...
“When you’re writing a profile, you walk into the situation not as a self, but as a person who is going to give yourself over to the...
“I’ve always had a passion for explaining our culture and history to people who aren’t familiar with it. In the last forty-three years...
“Portraiture is trying to approximate the temperature of someone. The way that they dress, the way that they see themselves as elevated. I...
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