“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...
“Your mind plays tricks on you when you experience trauma, and then you dare to dream. Dreams that are unimaginable. Everything that I’ve ever done...
“We’re a species wired for narrative, and I love being a part of that storytelling continuum. It’s a real pleasure and privilege to be working...
“For all of the writers and podcasters at The Ringer, there is a kind of interpretive analysis experience that is like, come along for the ride as I...
“I have always been interested in speaking with other people— interviewing people is one way you can be part of the conversation, literally. From a...