Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any other story springs.
The whole point about vision is that it's very individual, it's very personal, and it has to be confessional. It has to be something which hurts - the pulling out of it and putting it on the page hurts. Art can be about the individual writer's response to his or her condition, and if that response comes out of a predigested belief about what the audience wants to hear about the writer's condition, then it has no truth, it has no validity. You either write with your own blood or nobody's. Otherwise it's just ink.
Writing a book is like masturbation, and making a movie is like an orgy.
Writing about the unholy is one way of writing about what is sacred.
