A producer has to want you. And if the producer trusts you and asks for your vision, it frees you up so much, not having to explain or fight for every decision. You’re allowed to create.
I can’t pick up the phone to everybody that doubts me and explain myself.
I can tell you from personal experience it gets a little tiring having to make the rounds on cable shows to explain ‘what’s up with black folks.’
It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.
I felt like challenging myself and challenging my readers with something darker and heavier. I don’t know how to explain it, because I’m not a political person. I have two political stories, and that’s it: ‘Human Diastrophism’ and ‘Poison River.’
For someone in an alternative job, an alternative lifestyle, it’s very hard to explain what I do. So I sometimes try and dumb it down as much as possible, so I’m changing what I do every time! So sometimes I’m in an Uber, and they ask, ‘So what do you do?’ and I say, ‘I’m a comedian,’ or, ‘I’m a graphic designer.’
It’s impossible to explain to people who you are in a five-minute interview on TV.
