Art is a form of consciousness.
I mean, I went to a Catholic boys school for a year, but that was to play hockey. Religion class was quite contentious for me.
Violence is sometimes a very practical solution but I don't think it is the ultimate solution. Owning a gun is not OK for me. But I could argue both sides. Why shouldn't people own them? I'm not fundamentally against citizens having access to a weapon but I think it has complications. It's probably not the wisest idea. Obviously, it has consequences. Personally, I do not own a weapon.
Sure I believe in God and the Devil, but they don't have to have pitchforks and a long white beard.
Money buys you the freedom to live your life the way you want.
We are the sum of who we are. We pick certain things at certain moments that influenced us.
The inspiration really comes first from the character and the story. That vision of what the story is, and what the character is, the world that they inhabit and what the story wants to tell. That's really what inspires me.
I thought of killing myself but soon decided that I could always try MIT and then kill myself later if it was that bad but that I couldn't commit suicide and then try MIT afterwards. The two operations, suicide and going to MIT, don't commute.
Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit.
Since my adaptation of Ian McEwan's 'Atonement,' I get sent a lot of novels that people think will work as movies. So every now and then I make a point of sitting down and reading a couple of them.
Everything that you know about yourself comes from thinking back, and I think I saw religion as the first big betrayal of me.