Every new writing project, every new artistic project, needs to be protected so it can grow on its own before it begins to creep out into the world.

Every project is a new challenge for an actor. If it's not, it's boring.

Fairy tales, before they were sanitized, were very dark, and kids love that. 'Coraline' by Neil Gaiman feels like Beckett for kids. I think there's plenty of room for that. And I think there's a danger of being too patronizing to children, having things too sanitized.

The Arab World is writing a new future; the pen is in our own hands.

Spreading out the particle into a string is a step in the direction of making everything we're familiar with fuzzy. You enter a completely new world where things aren't at all what you're used to.

Every decade needs its own manual of handicraft.