A lot of the kinship that people notice is not coincidental. I was very impressionable and trying to find my role models when I was twelve or thirteen.

I think it's harder for each generation. Even I just feel completely separate from teenagers today who have access to the Internet. And I'm amazed that this interest in video games has never gone away. It just keeps growing.

Maybe you're not even in a position to really judge how good your kid is at that endeavor.

There are certain artists and filmmakers who, I get the impression, are trying to show off how bad their characters can be, how immoral their characters can be.

One of the by-products of being allowed to start my professional career prematurely is that the evolution of my work is really evident.

I think there's a lot of evolution that's happened in intangible ways, in terms of how I think about the work or how I plan it out.

I wanted it to be as readable as possible. I had the ambition of reaching a broader audience.