We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power.

I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.

All of my problems are rather complicated - I need an entire novel to deal with them, not a short story or a movie. It's like a personal therapy.

Your reality, isn’t restricted by this cell we live in. If you read something, if you study something, you transcend any cell you’re inside of

In film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that.

I believe in characters as vehicles of exposition. Their voices are full of hidden clues, and I like to listen to them.

I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.