The two biggest self-deceptions of all are that life has a 'meaning'and each of us is unique.

I'm very much into making lists and breaking things apart into categories.

People use irony as a defense mechanism.

In the future, women will have breasts all over. In the future, it will be a relief to find a place without culture. In the future, plates of food will have names and titles. In the future, we will all drive standing up. In the future, love will be taught on television and by listening to pop songs.

I don't like begging money from producers.

I've been in beautiful landscapes where one is tempted to whip out a camera and take a picture. I've learned to resist that.

Maybe this is all a bit of a myth, a willful desire to give each place its own unique aura. But doesn't any collective belief eventually become a kind of truth? If enough people act as if something is true, isn't it indeed "true," not objectively, but in the sense that it will determine how they will behave? The myth of unique urban character and unique sensibilities in different cities exists because we want it to exist.