Film fixes a precise visual image in the viewer's head. In fiction, you just hope you're precise enough to convey the intended effect.

I do believe very much in the idea of unexpected or "convulsive" beauty - beauty in the service of liberty.

You could know the what of something forever and never discover the why.

So many differing opinions and philosophies... are rarely housed under the roof of a single magazine.

I see music as an aid. It overcomes my internal editor, especially when the music evokes the character or the mood I'm trying to build.

When we wake, it is because something, some event, some pinprick even, disturbs the edges of what we’ve taken as reality.

I find myself in this bizarre position in which everything I write and talk about is pretty much about this issue, the environment. It feels a little too comfortable, because at the end of the day I can rationalize that I'm doing my share. I don't know if I actually am, I don't know if I should be more of an activist than I am. But at the end of the day, everybody needs to do those things that they're most likely to continue doing, and that aren't going to burn them out.