What You're Really After When You See

You Write A Scene, And It Works Or It Doesn't. It's Immediate.

The Reason I've Gotten Into Script-writing, Which Was Accidental To Begin With, Was That I Found It Was A Far More Effective Medium For Violence. Which Is Something That I'd Always Written In Songs, But The Violence Always Sat Strangely Within A Song. And I Was Always Interested In The Way In Which You Listen To Murder Ballads And Things Like That - These Weird Lines Would Kind Of Come Out, Like, I Drug Her By The Hair Or Something - That Sat Weirdly In The Song. Film Seems To Be A Medium Designed For Betrayal And Violence.

There's An Element To Songwriting That I Can't Explain, That Comes From Somewhere Else. I Can't Explain That Dividing Line Between Nothing And Something That Happens Within A Song, Where You Have Absolutely Nothing, And Then Suddenly You Have Something. It's Like The Origin Of The Universe.

The Concept Of God In America Is Very Different Than It Is In England. Because We See The Horrendous Outcome Of Religion As Being An American Thing, In Which The Name Of God Has Been Hijacked By A Gang Of Psychopaths And Bullies And Homophobes, And The Name Of God Has Been Used For Their Own Twisted Agendas.

Guns Are Part Of The American Psyche, Aren't They? This Is Collateral Damage For Having A Wild West Mentality. It's Intrinsic To The American Psyche. It's Never Going To Change.