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

Original thought, original artistic expression is by its very nature questioning, irreverent, iconoclastic.

Free speech is life itself.

I've always thought that one of the things that the Internet and the gaming world permits as a narrative technique is to not tell the story from beginning to end - to tell stories sideways, to give alternative possibilities that the reader can, in a way, choose between.

I have never really thought of myself as a writer about religion. And I think one of the things that happened to me as a result of all that is that I think it did for some people, many people, obscure the kind of writer that I actually am.

Sometimes I think that when people become famous, there's a public perception that they are not human beings any more. They don't have feelings; they don't get hurt; you can act and say as you like about them.

Sometimes people have said that Islam, in its own calendar, is still only in the Middle Ages.