My professional life has been about public service. My personal life I define very intently through my family.
Topher Grace is a really smart guy, and he really thinks about [acting].
I don't want to watch [films I was acting in]. I've had enough of me.
There are a lot of movies I feel good about. It was a great experience that I was lucky enough to be there in it. That's the way I feel.
Pretty is a self-serving situation in which it's all about you. People who are pretty are superficial, but they are not beautiful. Beauty requires more depth.
I'm a hoarder. For me, documentation has always been key, and I've kept everything from my past.
It's very odd, being older, because in a way it's hard to own the past, even.
Being in grief, it turns out, is not unlike being in love. In both states, the imagination's entirely occupied with one person. The beloved dwells at the heart of the world, and becomes a Rome: the roads of feeling all lead to him, all proceed from him. Everything that touches us seems to relate back to that center: there is no other emotional life, no place outside the universe of feeling centered on its pivotal figure.
I was a big Michael Jordan fan growing up. I don't feel my game resembles his though.
I don't think that stuff is gone - I just don't want to dwell on it. There's a difference. As I said, I think we all have tendencies as writers, and I think we all have experience that we bring as readers to each project.
People approach people of color with preconceived ideas. I don't think this is just restricted to white people, but I think that lots of black and white artists, when race is a subject matter, they put race or the ideology around race first. They don't see the person and the complications of the human being.