American - Writer | October 18, 1981 -
I believe in traditions; I believe in the idea of things being passed between generations and the slow transmission of cultural values through tradition.
Graham Moore
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I think everyone practices their Oscars acceptance speech with a shampoo bottle, and I've done my fair share of them. It's really surreal to be able to do it in real life.
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The enduring appeal of mystery stories for all of us is that the world is a pretty confusing place. There's a lot of really unanswered things, and perhaps the scariest notion would be that there might not always be answers out there for us.
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One thing that I always loved about, say, 'Raiders of the Lost Ark', is that Indiana Jones gets the Ark of the Covenant about sixty percent of the way through the movie. And then the rest of it is get-out-alive. To me, that's really cool. Because he's the one you care about at the end of the day.
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I liked Columbia, but it was like high school in that there was this big social world that I was not part of. I existed on the side, far away. That might be temperamental, my own fear of large groups, more than anything else. But I had a handful of professors who meant a lot to me.
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Over the years, I would go to my agents, my manager, and I would say, 'Hey, there's this amazing true story about this gay English mathematician who committed suicide in the 1950s.' And they would be like, 'Please don't ever write that script. That is an unmakeable film.'
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I think I always felt like an outsider, like a weirdo.
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In my experience, depression was not something that has been cured so much as managed, like a lot of illnesses.
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When I think of Sherlock Holmes, I think of a guy who can wander into the confusion of life and sort of pluck out answers at will.
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I feel very Midwestern at my core.
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Being bad at stuff is hard, and we all deal with it every day because we're all bad at stuff.
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My mother, she worked in the mayor's office in Chicago when I was growing up and has been in democratic politics for a long time.
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