Science fiction is where I started out, really. When I was a kid, I was a complete addict of science fiction. It was one of my earliest interests as a writer, and I've just taken a long time to circle back around to it.

If you live in free countries, you don't have to spend all your life arguing about freedom because it is all around you. It seems redundant to make a lot of noise about something when, in fact, there it is. But if someone tries to remove it, it becomes important for you to formulate your own defenses of it.

Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations.

When you are making an independent film, money is never an issue.

And so it is they who, between them, give me all the reasons for believing in none.

I'm not a big fan of there being voiceovers in movies. I really prefer it when the film tells it story.

I'm a novelist. Fortunately I don't have to rule the world.