I've never lived in the visual world. I live very much in an emotional-contact world.
Wes Anderson's mind must be an exciting place for a story idea to be born. It immediately becomes more than a series of events and is transformed into a world with its own rules, in which everything is driven by emotions and desires as convincing as they are magical.
'Seven Sonatas,' with its flowing series of meetings between men and women in an identifiable emotional world, is in the mould of Jerome Robbins' glorious 'Dances at a Gathering.'
When I write for teens, I feel I can cut through everything and get to the bare bones. I can get straight into the emotional world of the character.
Until writing was invented, man lived in acoustic space: boundless, directionless, horizonless, in the dark of the mind, in the world of emotion.
Even vegetables have feelings in our world.
There are two worlds: the world we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our hearts and imagination.
