Chemistry cannot be manufactured or forced, so Wild Flag was not a sure thing, it was a 'maybe,' a 'possibility.' But after a handful of practice sessions, spread out over a period of months, I think we all realized that we could be greater than the sum of our parts.
Writing isn't necessarily about what one knows but what one wants to know.
'Beasts of the Southern Wild' was one of those films that I felt like I could dismiss because it received so many accolades, but then I watched it and was won over.
I have no desire to play music unless I need music.
I try, in the present, to not exalt the past because I think that's such a way of diminishing the present. And it's hard to live like that.
I think my sister loves being an observer more than I do.
I think that art, and making music or comedy, is a way of positing yourself on the map and then trying to find other people out there with you.