I write plays and movies, I live and work at the borderline between word and image just as any cartoonist or illustrator does. I'm not a pure writer. I use words as the score for kinetic imagistic representations.

Artists know that diligence counts as much, if not more, as inspiration in art, as in politics, patience counts as much as revolution.

I don't feel, finally, that my politics are entirely determined by the fact that I'm a gay man.

Artists know that diligence counts as much, if not more, as inspiration in art, as in politics, patience counts as much as revolution.

You have a strange relationship with calamity when you're a writer: you write about it as an artist, you objectify and fetishize it. You render life into material, and that's a creepy thing to do.