“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...
“When you’re a writer, you live in dreamtime. It’s kind of like a kite. You begin with your own story, and the higher it goes, it starts to take off...
“In musical collaboration, you can kind of get outside of yourself. Being in a band, performing— in all those things, you have to collaborate and...
“Entertainment as a business does not work unless we have a viable career path for writers and actors. It can’t just be a gig economy where...
“I think that so often, when you enter journalism or creative fields, you kind of get the message that you’re allowed to be yourself— to a...
“It makes me emotional—how rich my life is with such amazing people. I’m so grateful to have met Paul and Cooper. Like, look at this thing we...
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