Were also far enough from the publishing power that we have no access to the politics of publishing, although there are interpersonal politics, of course.

American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc.

What I think happens, and that you have to acknowledge though, is that a director uses a book as a launching pad for his own work and that's always very flattering.

The truth is always an insult or a joke, lies are generally tastier. We love them. The nature of lies is to please. Truth has no concern for anyone's comfort

From the time I was little, I'd been kind of freaked out by the whole deal with large groups of people. And even moderate - sized groups of people. It's always made me very uncomfortable. It's such a strange phenomenon, what happens to people when they're all moving in the same direction, all chanting the same tune, the same line of slogans or something. That stuff always seems very alien and bizarre to me, and kind of scary.

But the animation has become very good, and I think that a movie is not a book, and a book is not a movie.

We survive until, by sheer stamina, we escape into the dim innocence of our own adulthood and its forgetfulness.