For me personally, I love art and artists of all mediums and we've seen madness is more often than not present in the greatest painters, poets, write….

You always want to unmask the person and find out who they are - that feeling of wanting what you can't have..

In college, I had a big fixation with Southern Gothic literature. Flannery O'Connor, I read every word she's ever written..

There's nothing I love more than a great truth-is-stranger-than-fiction story..

When work resonates with a person, whether it is literature or film or music, then they want to know more about the artist. That's very natural..

When I read any book, if it's really good I get lost in the writing whether it's fiction or non-fiction. I'm in the story not thinking about who wrot….

Myth is very powerful and fiction is very powerful..

In terms of legend, people do have a need, but I think you can't have a legend without the work or the art that comes before it..

What is fiction or cinema if not escape?.