“One time, my mom told us, ‘No TV.’ It was 3 P.M., and I was sneaking it in. She put her hand on the back of the TV to see if it was warm, and it was.”

I’ve always loved music videos – I used to make my own for bands like Pearl Jam.

So she pulled the cord out of the wall, opened the second-floor window, and just threw it out the window.

My favorite directors are Michel Gondry, Spike Jonze, and Patrick Daughters.

I’m more comfortable in a play. In film, there’s always a certain sense of control, of holding back.

When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you.

No one is a freak of nature. No one is going to be able to take the pounding a running back has to take over a 10- or 12-year career and not lose a step.

So (if) some cracker come and tell you ‘Well, my mother and father blood go back to the Mayflower,’ you better hold your pocket.

What I mean is that what composes an event is always extracted from a situation, always related back to a singular multiplicity, to its state, to the language that is connected to it, etc.

It takes a mile before anything happens. And if it was a wrong turn, getting back on course takes even longer.

I`m very cautious about what appears to be things put in place that will begin to roll back some of the progress that I believe we`ve made.

On a morning from a Bogart movie, in a country where they turn back time.