Movies that encourage empathy are more effective than those that objectify problems.

Objectifying is kind of a funny thing. Art is objectification, all art, because you're taking someone and making them into an object. But people can also talk back more to you when you're sketching them. They can look at you and say, 'Oh man, you got me wrong.'

I think that as soon as you think of yourself as a famous person or anything like that, you're objectifying yourself in some weird way.

By telling stories, you objectify your own experience. You separate it from yourself. You pin down certain truths.

You have a strange relationship with calamity when you're a writer: you write about it as an artist you objectify and fetishize it. You render life into material and that's a creepy thing to do.

I think that as soon as you think of yourself as a famous person or anything like that you're objectifying yourself in some weird way.