When I was four, I wrote a song about falling into a black hole.
I'm an avid watcher of the Nat Geo channel, where I watch shows about how the planets are formed, and shows about moons, quasars, black holes.
I have my email on my Blackberry, and that's about it.
My paintings are very much about the consumption and production of blackness. And how blackness is marketed to the world.
I could talk about Blade Runner forever.
The hardest thing about writing, for me, is facing the blank page.
The party currently is about fund-raising and occasionally blasting out ads.
Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.
I was a really avid bowler when I was a teenager. I had about a 210-220 average. I had blisters on my fingers.
Once I wrapped 'Insurgent', I went to Boston and shot a film called 'The Finest Hours.' It's based on a real story in 1952 about a Coast Guard mission to rescue these sinking ships that are caught in a blizzard.
A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage.
A daily blog would just about finish me off completely.
A curious thing about this rarefied world is that bloggers are almost unfailingly contemptuous toward everyone except one another.
There's plenty to criticize about the mass media, but they are the source of regular information about a wide range of topics. You can't duplicate that on blogs.
I used to be very insecure about my curly hair, because I lived in a country where everybody had blonde straight hair.
It's seen as xenophobic to be worried about Islam, but they appear to disproportionately allow intolerance to blossom in their communities.
He and I were about as compatible as a rat and a boa constrictor.
People who boast about their I.Q. are losers.
Although rap is about boasting, it's also about honesty and expressing your emotions.
I used to boast that Whole Foods was sort of recession-proof. And obviously I've been proven wrong. So I'm not boasting about that any longer.
