One thing I always did in my career was writing. I always was writing. I was trying to create things. For myself, for other people.
Usually when I write a script, I have in mind some real people that I'm writing about, who don't always act in the film afterward.
I love Maira Kalman. She's an amazing illustrator and writer. I've loved her since I was in college, but when I moved to New York and experienced the same city she was drawing and writing about, I developed a whole new appreciation. Her work made me observe everything so much deeper and more joyfully.
I'm always writing lyrics. I have so many lyrics on so many stray pieces of paper. Everywhere.
I got into DJing and making beats when I was about 17. I was always fascinated by the four elements of hip-hop: you know, writing, rhyming, breakdancing and graffiti.
There are some different things I'm writing and developing, but I don't know where they'll go. They're fun stuff that I would be in and are written in my voice, for me.
The Arab World is writing a new future; the pen is in our own hands.
Half your battle is won when the writing is good, and then you as an artist bring your personality into it.
I like English, and I like writing essays, and that kind of stuff.
I always say writing a play is like toothache: I find it incredibly painful, and it's only once the play's out that the pain is gone.
