Storytelling is so basic to human art-making. It's so basic to human life. The proof is our dreams. We make art every night when we go to sleep. It's incredible to think about that. No wonder human beings have always made art. We do that in our sleep—literally. One of the things that's so scary is that everyone has access to all the same tools of disseminating their stories, but the stories don't align. We really don't agree on what reality is. That doesn't make me think about fiction. That makes me think about psychosis. Because that is what psychosis is. I find that so frightening.
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