I think cinema is better today that you can be more daring with what you do. If you do it well. With that comes a responsibility not to bore people with vulgarity and all that stuff. To know how to do it right, know how to lay it out there.
I don't think writers are any smarter than other people. I think they may be more compelling in their stupidity, or in their confusion.
Movies have heart. Have mind. Have power. Have ambition.
I don't think writers should be convenient examples. I don't think we should make people feel settled. I don't try to be a gadfly, but I do think that real ideas are troublesome. There should be something about my work that leaves the reader unsettled. I intend that.
Good fiction challenges us as much as it entertains and these days, we could do with both of these things.
Stories make you think and dream; books make you want to ask questions.
I want to tell stories which require something of an audience, by way of thought, argument, emotion, because I'm more often in an audience than I am a maker of films, and that's the kind of movie I want to see.
There's two tiers of science fiction: the McDonalds sci-fi like Star Trek, where they have an adventure and solve it before the last commercial, and there are books that once you've read, you never look at the world the same way again.
I genuinely try to make movies I'd want to go and see, movies that are a bit more challenging.
I'm always interested in are stories that challenge people.
