I Don't Make A Career Plan. I

I Never Wanted To Make A Graphic Novel. As Soon As You Become A 'writer,' You Have To Be Intelligent All The Time... I Like The Fact That I Have The Right Once In A While To Say Silly Things.

I Don't Believe In The Clash Of Cultures. The Culture Is One. The Culture Is A Ring Off The Same Chain. Picasso Was Very Much Influenced By The African Arts, And He Influenced A Whole Other Generation Of Artists. So Everything Influences Everything.

I'm Not A Religious Person At All.

I Think With Pictures; I'm A Very Lousy Writer. If I Write Without Pictures, I Become This Pathetic Chick Sitting Somewhere Trying To Be Interesting.

There's This Scene In "the Night Of The Hunter" When The Kids Are Downstairs, And You Have The Feeling That They're Both In A Room And At The Same Time It Looks Remote. And You Wonder, How Can You Give The Effect Of Both "inside" And "outside" At The Same Time. And You Realize, By Watching It Many Times, That Around The Scene There's This Black Edging.