“I’m always trying to navigate this balance of collaboration, which is so incredibly important to me, and listening to my own voice. I think that’s...
“The Oscars are a diagnosis of the health of the movies. And the five to 10 films nominated for best picture operate as a class that doubles as an X...
“I’m going to put my time and effort into what I’ve continued to do, which is building ARRAY, building independent systems, building disruptive...
“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...
As we say goodbye to 2023, a collection of passages from some of our favorite episodes of the year. Featuring journalist and podcast host Sam Sanders...
“I do love the activity of writing, which is very different from editing. Editing is a social thing that you get right or you get wrong. It’s an...
“Acting is about having something happen to you, transparently enough that the audience can hopefully have a flavor of that experience. It’s why I...
“Democracy is fragile. You have to fight for every bit, every law, every safeguard, every institution, every story. You must know how dangerous...
“Performance is fleeting. I like acting, and part of what I love about directing is that I love performance. There’s something incredible about...
“I still really believe in storytelling. In some ways, stories are more important now than ever before because it takes so much for our values to...
“Performance art has this incredible power of realization of so many things. It is difficult to maintain because it is immaterial; it is time-based...
“It’s unsettling and revealing when you have a character who’s devoid of feeling, like Sam Bankman-Fried, how much you lose when you try to strip...
“When there’s friction in the world, it’s in that state that songs come out. The art of music is to take things that feel meaningless or hopeless and...
“Writing offers a falling away of something; a loss of judgment, a quieting of rumination. It’s hard to make the case for the value of astonishment...
“When you’re young, you come to destroy the generation above. I’m used to being the destroyer, and now I’m here to be destroyed. What I do notice...
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