I'm a very hard-line, angry atheist. Yet I am fascinated by the concept of devotion.

Science fiction is like a blender - you can put in any historical experience and take influences from everything you see, read or experience.

I'm a very hard-line, angry atheist. Yet I am fascinated by the concept of devotion.

You do not want a war. You have known violence, you have suffered loss, but you have seen nothing of war. War is not just the business of death; it is the anti-thesis of life. Hope, tortured and flayed, reason, dismembered, grinning at its limbs in its lap. Decency, raped to death... You will be a murderer and more.

I love all genres. The only thing I get stymied by is the Family Drama. I don't necessarily know how to approach that.

I love fantasy. I love horror. I love musicals. Whatever doesn't really happen in life is what I'm interested in. As a way of commenting on everything that does happen in life, because ultimately the only thing I'm really interested in is people.

We talked about various aspects of what we wanted to talk about, Hillary [Clinton] and [Donald] Trump and down-ballot stuff, various issues. One of the things that it showed was you've got to use fear.