My sister Kim is like Lucille Ball. She's magical in terms of her performance and her writing.
I've been getting to work with Steve Carell and just feel like the luckiest kid in the world.
It hasn't been a totally smooth road, but in the whole span of things I feel like a very lucky person.
I think, like, in real life, I'm actually quiet, and I mumble a lot. But that's not very lucrative.
Part of me always longed to do just one more film and see what Luke would be like now that he's on the level of Obi-Wan Kenobi, the student having become the master. But it was not meant to be.
I'm so much like Luke Skywalker I guess I always will be.
I love working with producers, like doing the record with Laidback Luke on 'Turbulence' and working with Afrojack on 'No Beef.'
As soon as I finished 'The Finkler Question,' I was in despair. I'd changed my English publisher because they'd been lukewarm about it and not offered enough money. The American publisher didn't like it. The Canadian publisher didn't like it... I'd been bleeding readers since my first novel, and I could see my own career going down.
I think that's part of my evolution: realizing that I can say 'no' to things, even when I'm faced with that lull that comes between projects, and I get anxious because I feel like I need to be constantly working.
I hear people telling me a lot that the production of that particular record - 'One Part Lullaby' - really influenced them. I'm like, 'What? We were dropped from the label after that!'
I mean, look, we're living in a country where you can't have a non-denominational response. If you're slightly critical of either party, all of the partisans jump on you like you're a lunatic.
'Somebody That I Used to Know' by Goyte has an odd, '80s vibe to it, but that does not mean that I did not like it. Quite the opposite actually. The song is different, and slowly lured me in. The video is just as strange, but definitely enjoyable.
When I go to the shore, I take along the poems of Pablo Neruda. I suppose it's because the poems are simultaneously lush and ripe and kind of lazy, yet throbbing with life - like summer itself.
I like to touch things. In my house I have a lot of velvet drapes and thick, lush couches.
Sumatra has these lush forests and huge, amazing creatures like elephants, orangutans, and tigers. They're disappearing because of industry coming in and cutting down the forests.
For me, the movies I like are all independent. And getting an independent feature made, it's like you get down to the selling organs part, and it just loses some of its luster.
We need to change America's image round the world. America has lost some lustre in terms of how folks aspire to be like us.
There is just something about starting your day with something luxurious like a bath.
I don't like venison or sushi - I don't want to eat what some people think are 'luxurious' foods.
Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.
