Re-writing is different from writing. Original writing is very difficult.

The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution.

Many wonderful, creative people have won Oscars, so if you win one, you're in their company.

Consciousness is the original sin: consciousness of the inevitability of our death.

The way a child discovers the world constantly replicates the way science began. You start to notice what's around you, and you get very curious about how things work. How things interrelate. It's as simple as seeing a bug that intrigues you. You want to know where it goes at night; who its friends are; what it eats.

I work with my dreams or nightmares.

Technology is us. There is no separation. It's a pure expression of human creative will. It doesn't exist anywhere else in the universe. I'm rather sure of that.