My first jobs were all civil service. At 14, I worked for the Canadian National Railways. At 16, I worked for the Canadian Penitentiary Service.

I get offers all the time from film makers, but they are unknown quantities. I don't go there and do experiments.

American Society for Psychical Research Journals were all around the house when I was a kid.

Folks have to pin me down because, for one thing, I don't have a laptop. I don't have an iPhone, and I refuse to carry them because they're immensely hackable.

My parents never had any money. It was cash flow. It flows, and you got your fingers in it for a little while, and it flows away. That's all I know about money. And I don't know, it flows and it's a river, but you can never, ever keep it. As an artist, I can't keep it. But hey, a man who dies with a cent in the bank is a foolish man. So I guess I'm going against the conservators. I'm a spendthrift.

You look at the floor and see the floor. I look at the floor and see molecules.

I've always been a big fan of science fiction and of the worlds of the spiritual and the mystic.