While Chat Pile’s lyrics aren’t about any one subject, the band is forward when it comes to political messaging. Whether it’s about tackling homelessness or other injustices, what’s been Chat Pile’s approach to writing about these matters? For instance, how do you decide whether to pursue subjects in a poetic or an explicit manner? First...
You’ve been in the acting game for going on 30 years, which is no small feat. Looking at your IMDb page, you’ve been in everything and played so many different kinds of people. Can you talk about how you’ve maintained that longevity in a business that certainly isn’t kind to women, especially as you get...
Do you have any creative rituals you’re practicing these days? I’ve been working on a b-sides project. It’s been a bit different than trying to write an album. I want this project to be a continuation of the album, but I also do believe that if you’re going to put something out, it shouldn’t be...
You’re a two-time Academy Award winner and three-time nominee. How did you feel about the Oscars this year, and what direction do you feel like we’re collectively heading in, in terms of the future of cinema? Did you see the opening monologue where Conan O’Brien wound up for a big joke about short documentaries, and...
I want to start by saying how fortunate I feel to be having this conversation with you at this moment in time. We’d first connected on an autumn evening six years ago during a death cafe you’d co-facilitated. That experience opened my world up to grief work, and it’s been integral to how I lead...
Tell me about Ten Lives. The goal of the book was to find someone in the richest 10 percent, then the next 10 percent, the next 10 percent, all the way down to the poorest 10 percent, and to take those 10 individuals and understand how money shaped their lives. I initially said to the...