“Roe v. Wade is so important to the fabric of our society at this point, and social expectations have crystallized around it—that we can’t...
“People often imagine that any kind of writing is cathartic. There’s something about discovering something in writing. Where do you finish it...
“The scary thing is—when you change, you’re ripping out a whole part of yourself, and you don’t know what goes in there. You’ve got to start...
“We were all were rooting for each other in Chicago, and we still are. I moved there knowing almost no one, having delusion and thinking I was...
“When people believe that more is possible, they are more likely to participate. And when they are aggrieved—when they know that someone is trying to...
“I am a curious person. My methodology is geared toward accessing the stuff I can’t consciously think of. I have all kinds of ways of doing that—I...
“In spite of what my parents went through, they were also very lucky. They carry the guilt of their parents’ humble beginnings. It’s a generational...
“You have to define love with yourself before you can love somebody. The love I feel for my son is unadulterated, pure, visceral love. But, there’s...
“Writing forever, I would write screenplays and realize they were about other movies. I’d get inspired and write these cool sequences, but the...
“There’s very little sex in Hollywood movies in 2022. I wanted to try to figure out why that is — or what has changed — by looking at that...
“I was born in 1956. In 1956, segregation was legal. We didn’t have a Civil Rights Act of 1964. I realized that you have to take risks for change...
“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...
“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 work...
“After the poem has passed out of the hands of the one who’s written it down, and after that person may have departed from time and space and be...
“When people believe that more is possible, they are more likely to participate. And when they are aggrieved, when they know that someone is trying...
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