Everybody's A Mad Scientist, And Life Is

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.

I Think Of Horror Films As Art, As Films Of Confrontation. Films That Make You Confront Aspects Of Your Own Life That Are Difficult To Face. Just Because You're Making A Horror Film Doesn't Mean You Can't Make An Artful Film.

I Like To Laze Around. I Think That's A Huge Part Of Creativity. You Have To Let Your Mind Relax And Then Another Part Of Your Brain Suddenly Connects With The Solution You're Trying To Find.

See, You Can't Rewrite, 'cause To Rewrite Is To Deceive And Lie, And You Betray Your Own Thoughts. To Rethink The Flow And The Rhythm, The Tumbling Out Of The Words, Is A Betrayal, And It's A Sin, Martin, It's A Sin." --hank (kerouac)to Martin (ginsberg) In The Film Naked Lunch

Re-writing Is Different From Writing. Original Writing Is Very Difficult.