Katherine Dunn Quotes

What I think happens, and that you have to acknowledge though, is that a director uses a book as a launching pad for his own work and that’s always very flattering.

Well, it arose out of two long-term concerns – the first being the possibility of genetic manipulation, nature versus nurture, what constitutes how people get to be how they are.

We’re also far enough from the publishing power that we have no access to the politics of publishing, although there are interpersonal politics, of course.

This idea that males are physically aggressive and females are not has distinct drawbacks for both s*xes.

The second is the structure and source of cults. They have always haunted me, and I wanted to explore the fundamental notion of giving up responsibility to an outside power.