The whole philosophy of modern times is to dissolve distinctions between individuals and deal with them as large collections of people. It's essentially self-interested on the part of authority.

I'm a very boring person.

I've lost all capacity for disbelief. I'm not sure that I could even rise to a little gentle scepticism.

Sometimes directors feel a script needs something, but they're not sure what it is, so they show it to a friend; if the friend is a writer, he ends up kicking around with that script for a while.

I write fiction because it's a way of making statements I can disown.

I don't act, I don't direct, I don't design.

All mystical experience is coincidence; and vice versa, of course.