I do feel like that's what a writer does, is he goes into other people's heads.
You're always running into people's unconscious.
True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time.
The chance to talk to so many people and understand what they're thinking about and why it matters is really, really so interesting. When you're doing that, you have to truly listen to what people are saying. You can't just pretend to listen.
I'm interested in history, in trying to relate the past to the present and to understand how people thought about their problems and pleasures.
There's a lot of social input when you put these things out there. People's ideas cross with other people's thoughts.
It's fun wandering around other people's minds.
If you try to guess what people are gonna think, you're chasing the wrong thing.
I don't know that I am fascinated with crime. I'm fascinated with people and their characters and their obsessions and what they do. And these things lead to crime, but I'm much more fascinated in their minds.
on the ground of both humanity and self-interest…. [There will be] a benefit done to our people by giving them something to think of which isn’t material gain..
We should go to war with Spain
I think probably the reason why I really enjoy acting is that I really am interested in people. I'm interested in what they think, why they think it and what happened in their lives to make them see things a certain way.
