I Don't Have A Moral Plan, I'm

I Never Thought I Was Doing The Same Thing As Directors Like John Carpenter, George Romero, And Sometimes Even Hitchcock, Even Though I've Been Sometimes Compared To Those Other Guys. We're After Different Game.

It's Impossible To Make A Movie Out Of 'naked Lunch.' A Literal Translation Just Wouldn't Work. It Would Cost $400 Million To Make And Would Be Banned In Every Country Of The World.

We Are At A Major Epoch In Human History, Which Is That We Don't Need Sex To Recreate The Race. You Can Have Babies Without Sex. This Is The First Time In Human History That Has Been True, And It Means, For Example, We Could Do Some Extraordinary Things.

For Me, It's Just A Normal Artistic Endeavour To Explore The Dark Side. Certainly, I'm Not Alone In It. Artists Generally Don't Like To Accept The Version Of Reality That Society And Culture Hand Them. They Want To Know What's Really Going On. So You're Always Looking In The Ceilings, Under The Floorboards And Behind The Walls, Trying To Find The Mechanisms, The Structures, And The Truth. I Find That Often Leads You Into Some Dark Places.

The Artist's Duty To Himself Is A Combination Of Immense Responsibility And Immense Irresponsibility. I Think Those Two Interlock.