I grew up in Rome, in actually what I would say was a liberal, open-minded family. My father was an architect and my mother was a teacher of art history, so it was sort of intellectual, and maybe a bit much for me when I was a child.
I did this Super-8 film at art school called 'Tissues,' this black comedy about a family whose father has been arrested for child molestation. I was absolutely thrilled by every inch of it, and would throw my projector in the back of my car and show ...
In our family, there wasn't anything else besides art. Nothing else in the world existed. My father never spoke about going to a movie or listening to music, other than my mother's singing.
Even though education was key in my family, I had no access to museums or art where we lived. I was a bit starved.
I got a BFA in Fine Art, and then I told my family I was going to be an actress.
My dad's side of the family had lots of artists and musicians. There's an emotional, quite sentimental quality to Slavic culture. It's very open, it loves art, it loves music, it loves literature. It's very warm, it's very up, it's very down. I would...
I was brought up in a car family, my dad loved cars and I was taught the art of making an Austin 7 operate.
Art and activism seem to go together naturally, the idea being that if you're an entertainer, you can have a voice, and if you have a voice, you can make a difference. But if I were not an actress, I would still try to extend myself beyond my little ...
My family runs a little art gallery back in Cornwall, so flashy cars and things like that have never really been particularly interesting to me.
Seriously, I wanted to be an artist because I saw that it meant endless possibilities. I came from a badly managed family background, so art was a way of reinventing myself.
My last trip to New Orleans was for the fifth anniversary of Katrina, and I had the awesome opportunity to bring my family down. We all worked on a house together and met some of the families.
Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church.
If Yo Mama and Yo Daddy got a divorce, they'd still be brother and sister.
Good science fiction has its roots in good science.
It's the unknown that I fear, the bites of memories that still have no connections.
I raised an alluring eyebrow. Alluringly.
All families are psychotic. Everybody has basically the same family - it's just reconfigured slightly different from one to the next.
We couldn’t be friends. We couldn’t be enemies. So what were we?
The blood jet is poetry There is no stopping it.
What are a friend's books for if not to be borrowed?
I enjoy going out by myself... always have, always will. I don't have security guards, and, for the most part, I enjoy meeting new people. I see myself as a regular guy who likes playing video games with his nieces and nephews and poker with his fami...
