[When] Johnny Mnemonic was coming out and I realized that all the kids that worked in 7-11 knew more - or thought they knew more - about feature film production than I did. And that was from reading Premiere, that was from this change that came from magazines that treat their readers as players. Magazines that purport to sell you the inside experience.

Canadian cities looked the way American cities did on television.

I'm quite good friends with the putative director, Vincenzo Natali, and I'm a big fan of his work, but beyond that, I don't like to talk about other people's work work-in-progress.

I don't think about the real future very much.

The past is past, the future unformed. There is only the moment, and that is where he prefers to be.

Naps are essential to my process. Not dreams, but that state adjacent to sleep, the mind on waking.

The future is there... looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become.