I've Dealt With A Lot Of Producers

I Was A Weird Little Kid. I Was Very Irritable, Bored, Frustrated. I Felt My Imagination Bubbling Inside My Head Without Having Any Way To Express Itself. Given A Crayon And Paper, I Would Not Draw A Train Or A House. I Would Draw These Monsters, Beasts And Demons.

We Have Great Cities To Visit: New York And Washington, Paris And London; And Further East, And Older Than Any Of These, The Legendary City Of Samarkand, Whose Crumbling Palaces And Mosques Still Welcome Travelers On The Silk Road. Weary Of Cities? Then We’ll Take To The Wilds. To The Islands Of Hawaii And The Mountains Of Japan, To Forests Where Civil War Dead Still Lie, And Stretches Of Sea No Mariner Ever Crossed. They All Have Their Poetry: The Glittering Cities And The Ruined, The Watery Wastes And The Dusty; I Want To Show You Them All. I Want To Show You Everything.

Never Believe Your Eyes

There’s No Conscious Thing On The Face Of The World That Doesn’t Know Dread More Intimately Than Its Own Heartbeat.

There Are Things That Are More Important Than The News And What’s Happening Today. There Are These Archetypes Which Are Part Of The Human Imagination Since Humans Were Presumably Imaginative. And I Think That’s What [people] Find Touching, These Eternal Ideas. It’s One Of The Things That Makes Fantasy Something That Tends To Stand The Test Of Time Because We’re Reading, 50 Years Later, The Lord Of The Rings.