Nothing's ever entirely new. It's more a matter of what gets picked up from the past at each time.

Why do people think that we’re degraded when we’re examining positions of degradation, or examining the cycle of our own degradation?

Ask anyone who makes a full-length movie that's shown in the art world if they'd rather have a career as a film director or as an artist. Invariably, they'd rather be known as a film director, because that's what they are. But there's not really a system of independent distribution anymore that allows for that, and so the art world has kind of become all-enveloping. It's absorbed all of these disciplines that don't have a home anymore.

Nothing's ever entirely new. It's more a matter of what gets picked up from the past at each time.

No one...can live in this heightened state of reflective receptivity forever. Because this empathy's involuntary, there's terror here. Loss of control, a seepage. Becoming someone else or worse: becoming nothing but the vibratory field between two people.

Why does everybody think that women are debasing themselves when we expose the conditions of our debasement?

I think what makes you feel so connected with certain writers isn't a matter of autobiographical detail, but that the emotions are real. The way some writers are able to channel themselves through the form.