I Feel Like I'm A Filmmaker; I

I Think That Poe Is So Resonant Because He Represents That Part Of Us That Is In Misery Or Sorrowful Or Wants To Explore The Darkness. He Wrote A Great Story Called 'the Imp Of The Perverse' About The Instinct Towards Self-destruction. Poe Is The Godfather Of Goth Literature And That Whole Movement.

Once You Have Opened Up Prisoner Interrogation, Wiretapping, Border Patrol, Jailing And The Services Of The Military, When This Has Been Turned Into A For-profit Business In This Endless War, Then We're In Deep Trouble.

When Applied To Politics And Taken To Its Extreme, Kitsch Is The Mask Of Death. Fascism Was All Aesthetics. There Was No Core Principle To It. There Was No Truth To It.

Getting Trapped Back In The '80s, It's Almost Like A Comic Nightmare, Which For Me Is A Very Real Nightmare. Every Time I Flip Through The Cable, I Have Flashbacks.

I Was Only In One Of The John Hughes Films, And I Never Saw The Other Ones. I Didn't Understand Them. I Kept Hearing A Really Hip 40-year-old Person Talking In Teenagers' Mouths.