"I was always raised on cowboy films, and then when I could start making choices about the movies I wanted to watch I found myself wanting to watch gangster films which were slightly more sophisticated than the baseline stuff that was in westerns."

"A relationship to me is never about the romance."

"Knowledge about the economy, ideas about capitalism and government, the future of the world and geopolitics were things I was never really interested in."

"I've been in fights, but that doesn't make me cool or like a tough guy or more interesting actor, I'm not proud of it."

"My mother would never let me in the kitchen. I always wanted to cook, but I was never allowed to. Her view of the world was, 'Cooking is my job, and studying is your job.' I think, in retrospect, she didn't like the chaos. She was very orderly. It had to be her way."

"The alchemy of good curating amounts to this: Sometimes, placing one work of art near another makes one plus one equal three. Two artworks arranged alchemically leave each intact, transform both, and create a third thing."

"Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art."

"If you think of a work of fiction as a kind of scale model of the world, then the positive valences - where things turn out better than you thought they would - ought to be in there somewhere, too."