The more film I watch, the more John Ford looks like a giant. His politics aren't so good, and you have to learn to accept John Wayne as an actor, but he's a poet in black and white.

The key to mostly anything is pretending your first time isn't.

I guess they needed a maze in Japan, where everything's neat and tidy. In America everybody's already wandering around lost.

The more film I watch, the more John Ford looks like a giant. His politics aren't so good, and you have to learn to accept John Wayne as an actor, but he's a poet in black and white.

Yes! I'm the slowest comic-book writer on Earth.

I suppose in a way most of my characters are non-consumers, not terribly interested in all the little baubles and artifacts of contemporary life.

By removing the stories from the morass of things that surround us, I'm hoping to achieve some kind of purer approach to emotional life.