Jeff Baena

“'Motherwort.' 'Great Leopard's Bane.' These are awesome band names.”

“I think one of the bigger issues with modern-day people is that we don't give enough credit to people from history as being real. We almost treat them as these rarified beings that didn't ex...”

“Aubrey Plaza is absolutely amazing.”

“For us, when we think about the Middle Ages, it's sort of this rarefied, distant time that we have no connection to, especially if you grew up in America.”

“I grew up in suburbia, so it's a world I'm familiar with... but in my experience, all the families that I grew up thinking were the perfect families who kept it together... all their secrets...”