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Subject matter that is not bound to reality offers more opportunity to write a unique story and cinematically present it in very unique ways.

Sometimes it's less about the character and more about the story for me. I'll play a rock in the background if I think the story is fantastic and I can be a part of it somehow. That's what I look for.

Writers have to be careful not to confuse personal attention with the attention that's going towards the book.

Big stories have lots of angles, and you have to decide what part of that story you want to address.

Point-of-view is a matter that readers rarely pay attention to, yet it's one of the most important story decisions an author makes.

I don't have the energy or the mental security to get involved with all that. I think it's a good idea to be able to disappear into the story, so that the first thing the audience sees isn't you, but the part.

The story is more important to me than the part.

Sometimes I try to concentrate on the story I would like to write, and I realize that what interests me is something else entirely, or, rather, not anything precise but everything that does not fit in what I ought to write.

No matter how close to personal experience a story might be, inevitably you are going to get to a part that isn't yours and, actually, whether it happened or not becomes irrelevant. It is all about choosing the right words.

The work itself has a complete circle of meaning and counterpoint. And without your involvement as a viewer, there is no story.