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" I love J. G. Ballard. I love authors who take the world as we know it and just tweak one thing and say, 'What if the world were like this?' "

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" I view myself still as a director. That's what I do. "

" I love my work, but I don't like being in the spotlight. I was never going to be an actor, that's for sure. "

" I'd done a bachelor's degree, which I'd enjoyed, but I didn't know what to do with my life at the time. I was conflicted, and, being a hopeless romantic, I followed my girlfriend at the time to Vanderbilt, where, obviously, we broke up a couple of months later. "

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