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

Myth is very powerful and fiction is very powerful.

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, writers, and songwriters in history.

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.

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.

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

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 wrote it.

What is fiction or cinema if not escape?

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

He started as an enigma to me; he remains an enigma to me.