I'm not really allowed to talk about the Dead though. I think when we are at our best, we definitely do things that the Dead or no other band could do. We explore things and take things to the extreme.
I've been guilty of being in the writers' room and going too dark; other people have gone too wacky and zany.
True perfection in all things is no longer known or prized - you must write music that is either so simple a coachman could sing it, or so unintelligble that audiences like it simply because no sane person could understand it.
Actors love to do extreme things, so that is why they become actors; otherwise, they'd be novelists.
I demand that a film express either the joy of making cinema or the agony of making cinema. I am not at all interested in anything in between.
Art, like Nature, has her monsters
If you ever get the opportunity to work with Quentin Tarantino, you had better believe that it will be an experience of extremes.