But When You're Writing A Script -

I'm Just Observing The World. I Was Born Into It, Like You Were, And Then I Found Out There Were Some Really Disturbing Aspects To Being Alive, Like The Fact That You Weren't Going To Be Alive Forever - That Bothered Me.

More Blood! More Blood!

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.

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.

It's Impossible To Make A Movie Out Of 'naked Lunch.' A Literal Translation Just Wouldn't Work. It Would Cost $400 Million To Make And Would Be Banned In Every Country Of The World.