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“I feel like I'm a New Yorker to the bone. But there is a lot of the South in me. I know there is a lot of the South in my mannerisms. There's a lot of the South in my expectations of other people and how people treat each other. There's a lot of the South in the way I speak, but it could never be home.”
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“Once you start saying, 'Let's talk political, my own politics, my own aspirations,' it can become not just distracting in that it takes time, but it can become confusing and frustrating, and is this now a political agenda or a governmental agenda.”
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“I'm glad that my films have been consistently faring well rather than one stray Friday!”
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“If you like the book, you'll hate the movie.”
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“You can get the oldest drum machine out and whack out four sounds like a kick, snare, and two types of high-hat, and try and come up with the freshest thing on the spot. The gear can guide you - you can choose one bit of gear and it's obviously got its restrictions and its limitations, but at the same time, you've got to exploit what it's capable of and what it's best used for.”
Source : "Autechre". Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. February 18, 2008. 
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“Most books aren't pure nonfiction or fiction.”
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“I was interested in variations in temperatures of the oceans over the past millennium. But there are no records of these changes so I had to find proxy measures: coral growth, ice cores and tree rings.”
Source : "Death threats, intimidation and abuse: climate change scientist Michael E. Mann counts the cost of honesty" by Robin McKie, www.theguardian.com. March 3, 2012.
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“Laws can be wrong and laws can be cruel. And the people who live only by the law are both wrong and cruel.”
Source : "Fictional character: Thea". "Isle of the Dead", www.imdb.com. 1945.
