“X' was a movie that in some ways was about how independent filmmaking ...” — Ti West Quote

“X' was a movie that in some ways was about how independent filmmaking had an effect on people. 'Pearl' in many ways is like how a more glamorous Hollywood idea of lifestyle would affect people.”

“Joe Swanberg, the Duplass Brothers - we all came up the same time, in 2005, and all became friends and aligned ourselves as kids making movies, and I just happened to have zombies in mine.”

“I feel like most media brands in the States, as far as news brands, are heavily slanted to the left or the right. They have their own agenda to what they're doing. Whereas, while Vice is a brand, they don't have their own political agenda.”

“Increases in stabilized rents impact rent stabilized tenants directly, but they also affect the affordability of all New Yorkers' rents.”

“I don't allow the stress of the unknown to affect my health, and I listen to my body when it sends me distress signals.”

“I enjoy all forms of writing, but playwrighting is what made me what I am. Not only working with the ghosts of Chekhov and Ibsen and Shakespeare, but what it is to be a playwright, to be interacting with human beings in the live theater and affect people on such a direct, emotional level.”