You Want To Be As Smart As

Be Interested In Everything. You Don't Have To Adore It. I Don't Adore Hip-hop, I Don't Think It's Great Music, But I'm Interested, I Listen. I Watch A Lot Of New Films, I See Everything. I Still Read, I Like Books, Whether They Are Old Books, New Books. I'm Interested - You Gotta Stay Interested!

The Audience Got Jaded, They Want A Hit, They Want A Big Success, And So You Don't Want To Experiment Because You Say, Well, I'll Disappoint The Audience, They May Not Like It, I Better Do Something That I Think Is More Commercial.

My Mind Is A Raging Torrent, Flooded With Rivulets Of Thought Cascading Into A Waterfall Of Creative Alternatives.

I Have Been Lucky That Some Critics Joined The Mob In Loving Something I've Done, Or In Appreciating It. I've Been Lucky. But Most Of The Critics Don't Like What The People Like. I Think They Have A Very Strange Job, And They Are Meant To Criticize.

No Creative Writer Knows What Is Commercial And What Isn't. You Just Write From Your Heart, You Write From The Deepest, Creative Urges In You, And You Write From Your Soul, And You Just Either Get Lucky Or Not.