The Future Is Not Set. There Is

I've Sworn Off Agnosticism, Which I Now Call Cowardly Atheism. I've Come To The Position That In The Complete Absence Of Any Supporting Data Whatsover For The Persistence Of The Individual In Some Spiritual Form, It Is Necessary To Operate Under The Provisional Conclusion That There Is No Afterlife And Then Be Ready To Amend That If I Find Out Otherwise.

My Mother Was A Housewife But She Was Also An Artist. My Father Was An Electrical Engineer.

The Literature Now Is So Opaque To The Average Person That You Couldn't Take A Science-fiction Short Story That's Published Now And Turn It Into A Movie. There'd Be Way Too Much Ground Work You'd Have To Lay. It's Ok To Have Detail And Density, But If You Rely On Being A Lifelong Science-fiction Fan To Understand What The Story Is About, Then It's Not Going To Translate To A Broader Audience.

I Tried [being A Mogul]. It Bores Me. I Don't Really Want To Produce Other People's Movies. Because They're Either Grown-up Filmmakers Like Steven Soderbergh Or Kathryn Bigelow That Didn't Really Need Me - And I've Produced Both Of Them. It's Fun To Sit Around With Them And Be Collegial, But They Don't Need Me. They Can Make The Film Without Me. I Make My Own Stuff. There Are Tons And Tons Of Other Things I'm Interested In That Have Nothing To Do With Movies Or Are Documentary Projects.

I Lived In A Small Town. It Was 2,000 People In Canada. A Little River That Went Through It And We Swam In The - You Know, There Was A Lot Of Water Around. Niagara Falls Was About Four Or Five Miles Away.