I think that it's more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry rather than fiction.

Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.

The Bible should be taught but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction myth poetry anything but reality. As such it needs to be taught because it underlies so much of our literature and our culture.

I would like to do another piece of fiction dealing with a number of issues: Lesbian parenting the 1960's and interracial relationships in the Lesbian and Gay community.

Well the thing about great fictional characters from literature and the reason that they're constantly turned into characters in movies is that they completely speak to what makes people human.

I was always attracted to science fiction movies.

I'm a sci-fi girl. If I can have anything in life I'd want tons of great science-fiction movies and stories. It's so progressive beautiful and imaginative.

My interest in film is sort of catholic - apart from science fiction and horror movies I'll watch almost everything.

I like fantasy. I like horror science fiction because I can get avant-garde with those performances in those movies.

I think that's what distinguishes Schmidt really. In the movies now so much of what is appealing to an audience is the dramatic or has to do with science fiction and Schmidt is simply human. There's no melodrama there's no device It's just about a human being.