Reading 'Moby-Dick' helps you discover how to live.
'Moby-Dick' really threw me. I read it when I was 14 and my best friends were books. It changed the way I looked at the world.
No highbrow literary type would ever say 'Moby Dick' is good but it's just about a whale, or a Jane Austen would be important if she wasn't just writing about romantic relationships.
I'm so optimistic, I'd go after Moby Dick in a rowboat and take the tartar sauce with me.
When I go on vacation, I take very few clothes and a whole lot of books. It's the most soothing thing in the world. Reading 'Moby-Dick' is like being in a time machine. I almost feel as excited as the first time I read it and I always find something new.
'Baltimore' the series is inspired by all kinds of things, from 'Moby Dick' to 'Dracula.'
There's the typical books, Moby Dick and, I guess in my adult life I began to read biographies more than fiction. I started to want to relate to other people's lives, things that had really happened.
Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking tartar sauce with you.
I think people have the wrong idea of 'Moby Dick' as this somber, boring thing.
Even though I hadn't read a word of it, I grew up hating 'Moby-Dick.'
I hated the fact that I had to read 'Moby-Dick' as a senior in high school.
'Moby-Dick' has a remarkable way of resonating with whatever is going on in the world at that particular moment.
In graduate school, I was a student of E.L. Doctorow, and he had us read 'Moby-Dick' in a week.
I'd like to play the whale in 'Moby Dick.' If I keep eating, I may end up getting there.
Directing was a transformative experience for me, one that I really enjoyed.
I think I'm a bit like Ishmael in 'Moby Dick': a story teller and an observer in his own crisis.