I think that is what film and art and music do; they can work as a map of sorts for your feelings.

[When asked where his drive comes from] " You're bullied, you're miserable...every artist has someone who told them they weren't worth dirt and someone who told them that they were the second coming of the baby Jesus and they believed them both, and that's the fuel that stirs the fire.

First, you write for yourself... always, to make sense of experience and the world around you. It’s one of the ways I stay sane. Our stories, our books, our films are how we cope with the random trauma-inducing chaos of life as it plays.

The artists we love, they put their fingerprint on your imagination, and on your heart and your soul.

The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.