“Art is supposed to highlight the things that we can’t always communicate. It’s supposed to go deeper on an instinctive level. For us to understand...
“The composers that I know spend time alone and sing to themselves. It’s wonderful because they would never have heard those sounds if...
It’s been a year. And while we’re not quite done with it (2:55), we wanted to take a moment to celebrate some of our favorite episodes and guests...
“America is beautiful because it’s full of all kinds of people. In Taste the Nation, I hope that I give as balanced a picture of these stories...
“The thing about getting older is you know more, and you’ve seen more. Unlike athletes, whose bodies slow down— for actors it’s an accumulation...
“Often we think we’re going to enter some house or garden, and it’s going to stir up all the old feelings, and it doesn’t. In my film A Real Pain...
“I feel strangely good. I don’t know how to feel about that yet. There’s something about this process that means a lot to me, and that’s being able...
“In doing politics reporting on The Run-Up, we did it in real time because it mattered in real time. I wasn’t just asking questions because I wanted...
“Either writing and books are powerful, or they’re not. And if they are—and I’ve argued that they are—then the era made in The Case for Reparations...
“It’s funny, I wrote a whole book of stories from my life. The objective was to make it as entertaining as possible. And this movie, Woman of the...
“Revision is a philosophy; it’s a way of life. There is always time to revise, there’s always time to change, there’s always time to tell a new...
“We have forgotten about who we can be and what else is inside us, and Stevie Wonder is trying to access that again. His purpose in this world is to...
“Never mistake your location for your story. In Saturday Night, SNL is the location for a story about one generation ripping television out of the...
“As I think back, when I was working on The Godfather, I had no power at all, but I had used the sort of Machiavellian ability that I developed to do...
“In those moments on set with Gus Van Sant or Paul Thomas Anderson or Lynne Ramsay, there’s something creative that’s happening. You’re part of a...
“With writing or any bit of art-making, it’s coming from the you that’s in the moment, but it’s inadvertently for the you that you don’t know yet...
“Gen Z is the mass shooting generation. It’s a staple of our collective identity. Some of the most significant moments of our collective...