But nothing warps time quite like childhood
People just want good stories.
Life is mostly just learning how to lose.
Because it's in and about New York City, I knew 'Ex Machina' was going to have to continually mix the mundane and the fantastic.
I start with something that makes me angry or confused, and then I write about it. It's a form of self-help.
It was interesting looking back at the '80s and trying to find newspaper headlines from the time - the clichรฉ of history repeating itself.