“I start with a mood or an idea that comes from a personal place emotio...” — James Gray Quote

I start with a mood or an idea that comes from a personal place emotionally, and the narrative concepts come much later.

I grew up in a semi-attached row house in Queens in New York. And my family and my grandparents and my father's from Brooklyn, and so you're essentially an outer boroughs kid, you're growing up.

The state of being in love is so inherently preposterous. It usually lends itself to romantic comedy. I think we've all been there.

Time can be very good or very cruel to films.

At Ellis Island, I mean, you didn't go there if you arrived in first class. It was only the poorest, the people in the worst shape.

I can't even begin to grasp concepts like the multiverse.

My love of science fiction comes from the idea of being able to explore ideas and concepts to an either logical or illogical extreme.

When I struggled with a depressive episode in 2013, I realized that I had a glitch in my thinking about my own motivation. I had separated learning and teaching into different concepts.

Just being out in the world, you see so many things, and every day, you experience so many concepts and different people and their coolness and weirdness. It's a feast of ideas.

I think the good thing about Macklemore is that he is very precise about what he gets involved in. As you can tell, he's very passionate about what he puts his name on, because he talks about things people don't usually talk about, and his concepts are very, very passionate.