As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I'm severed.

Something stopped me in school a little bit. Anything that I'm not interested in, I can't even feign interest.

To me, Godard did to movies what Bob Dylan did to music: they both revolutionized their forms.

A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.

To call Clive Barker a 'horror novelist' would be like calling the Beatles a 'garage band'... He is the great imaginer of our time. He knows not only our greatest fears, but also what delights us, what turns us on, and what is truly holy in the world. Haunting, bizarre, beautiful.

As a writer, I demand the right to write any character in the world that I want to write. I demand the right to be them, I demand the right to think them and I demand the right to tell the truth as I see they are.