Erykah Badu: “We’re in an industry that thrives on power and enthusiasm and outgoingness. How do you find the silence underneath it all?”

Ezra Miller: “It’s such a dangerous thing, isn’t it? To endeavor to be a reflective surface. I think that artists don’t make art—the art makes itself through us. I’m not the doer, you know? I’m just along for the ride…

“Narcissism is a tragic condition. It must be so miserable to live trapped in a reflection that only includes the smallest version of our identities.”

Interview, November 2017, 73.

Ezra Miller in Another Happy Day, directed by Sam Levinson (2011).