If You Put Yourself In A Group

Anybody Who Comes To The Cinema Is Bringing They're Whole Sexual History, Their Literary History, Their Movie Literacy, Their Culture, Their Language, Their Religion, Whatever They've Got. I Can't Possibly Manipulate All Of That, Nor Do I Want To.

I Like To Laze Around. I Think That's A Huge Part Of Creativity. You Have To Let Your Mind Relax And Then Another Part Of Your Brain Suddenly Connects With The Solution You're Trying To Find.

It Was Apparent To Me That Religion Was An Invented Thing, A Wish-fulfillment Thing, A Fantasy Thing. It Was Much More Real, Dangerous, To Accept That Mortality Was The End For You As An Individual. As An Atheist, I Don't Believe In An Afterlife, So If You're Thinking Of Murder, If Your Subject Is Murder, Then That's A Physical Act Of Absolute Destruction Because You're Ending Something, A Body, That Is Unique. That Person Never Existed Before, Will Never Exist Again, Will Not Be Karmically Recycled, Will Not Go To Heaven, Therefore I Take It Seriously.

For Me, The First Fact Of Human Existence Is The Human Body. But If You Embrace The Reality Of The Human Body, You Embrace Mortality, And That Is A Very Difficult Thing For Anything To Do Because The Self-conscious Mind Cannot Imagine Non-existence. It's Impossible To Do.

We Are At A Major Epoch In Human History, Which Is That We Don't Need Sex To Recreate The Race. You Can Have Babies Without Sex. This Is The First Time In Human History That Has Been True, And It Means, For Example, We Could Do Some Extraordinary Things.