"His  characters, and the fears that are expressed in Philip K. Dick's works, seem very similar to a lot of us, which I recognize [in the same way that] I have a kinship to certain Russian literature, you know, this kind of feeling, these same emotions, these same thoughts, they're recognizable. And no matter what the context, however ( Read more... )

“I’ve liked sci-fi since I was a little kid,” he says. “It started with flying machines and distant planets and unknown mysteries where the imagination could go. Then, as I got older, I got more interested in what happened on those new planets. What the governments are and how people live, and that ultimately arrives at Philip K. Dick.”

On A Scanner Darkly

“One of the aspects I like about the film is that there is a kind of emotional, psychological discussion during the storytelling, … Before taking a drug, go through yourself, experience yourself, all your hopes and fears in your own time. Before the pharmacology, do the psychology.” ( Read more... )

"One of the notions (in A Scanner Darkly) is that even with surveillance what do you really know, what do you really see?"