I'm drawn to female characters; not all of them are strong characters.

It took an entire generation of critical thinking for Douglas Sirk's films to be really appreciated.

I've been really lucky with critical reaction, overall, even if my films don't often resemble each other.

Carol' takes place at a time the country was crawling out of the shadows of the war years, feeling the new vulnerabilities of the Cold War and conflicts within the union.

I did an internship at the Ardent theatre company in Philly after dropping out of college. I was earning $165 a week building sets and cleaning the toilets. Cleaning toilets is a good way of getting in touch with your creativity. That's when you find out if you got anything going on in your head.

If you look to any of our art, whether it's music, television, movies, art, anything - we seem to be really looking for love, and often in all the wrong places.

I see my career as not just music, but as hopefully an entertainer on all mediums, and someone who can have real influence and make great art.

As a boy, I'd always had an interest in theater. But the idea at my school was that drama and music were to round out the man. It wasn't what one did for a living. I got over that.