“The first novel was my attempt to bring poetry’s ethos into the novel form. The novel is the youngest form; it’s a young genre. Because it’s so...
“Should you paint over all the monuments and the memorials that were created for George Floyd, the history still exists—and the people willing to...
“There’s power in the quiet moments between words. Being comfortable in silence—to not be afraid of it—is not just about stand-up. Once I...
“I did fall in love with caves for a while. Caves are scary to us in the abstract; they’re dark, and there’s something in there. When you start going...
“Playing Joe Goldberg has been beautiful, healing, wounding, and intense. The glorification of a villain like Joe was sort of imaginative and...
“The way people commit to Air Force One, Die Hard, Sigourney Weaver in Alien—I want them to commit to me. There is no closet in the studios filled...
“The way people commit to Air Force One, Die Hard, Sigourney Weaver in Alien—I want them to commit to me. There is no closet in the studios filled...
“The American consumer is the horse that pulls the cart economically in our country, but really the whole world. When consumer confidence falls—when...
“This book, Dream Count, has been in my head for many years. I knew I wanted to write about women’s lives, and I really believe that my mother helped...
“When I was starting out as an actor, I wish I had been exposed to things that had suited my tastes more. I didn’t understand that what I thought was...
“There’s always an existential crisis in Hollywood because, at its core, it is a conflicted industry. It’s art and commerce trying to coexist...
“There’s always an existential crisis in Hollywood because, at its core, it is a conflicted industry. It’s art and commerce trying to coexist...
Ezra Klein, welcome back to the show. Great to be here. How are you doing? Tired. Getting tired of the sound of my own voice. But otherwise, I’m good...
Ezra Klein, welcome back to the show. Great to be here. How are you doing? Tired. Getting tired of the sound of my own voice. But otherwise, I’m good...
“When I say I see this moment as an event horizon, what I mean is that I don’t know what’s on the other side of it. It might be better. Maybe this...
“I think it’s important to appreciate where I am. Life is long but really fast. My priority is to be present in everything I do, to be deliberate...
“I hope to create a reference to the past, to the land we’ve lived on over generations, but also into the future, asking what that could look like...
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