What I Wished More Than Anything Was

One Is Not Struck By The Truth Until Prompted Quite Accidentally By Some External Event.

We All Live Inside Bodies That Will Deteriorate. But When You Look At Human Beings, They're Capable Of Very Decent Things: Love, Loyalty. When Time Is Running Out, They Don't Care About Possessions Or Status. They Want To Put Things Right If They've Done Wrong.

I Really Have To Think Of The Things Fiction Can Do That Film Can't And Play To The Strengths Of The Novel. With A Novel You Can Get Right Inside Somebody's Head.

The Reason I Wouldn't Dare To Write A Western Is Simply Because That Seems To Be So Much A Part Of American Culture. Maybe If I Want To Write A Western Enough I Should Try To Overcome That Fear, But I'll Certainly Feel Like I'm Trespassing. I Feel That That Is So Much A Part Of American Foundation Myth, It's Part Of The Myth Of America, The American Vision Of What America Is, Which People Have Glorified And Then Challenged And Then Vilified.

I Loved Cowboy Films And Tv Series, And I Learned Bits Of English From Them. My Favorite Was 'laramie', With Robert Fuller And John Smith. I Used To Watch 'the Lone Ranger', Which Had Been Famous In Japan As Well. I Idolized These Cowboys.