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1. Who wouldn’t be depressed living in a society that can’t agree on reality, let alone health-care policy?
2. I think I always wanna write comedy because that’s what feels truest to me; it feels closest to life as I know it, so that’s what I want to reproduce.
3. The questions about my father are inevitable, regardless of the characters I create or the subject matter.
4. My parents and my brother root for me.
5. I find that I’m extremely unattracted to anything that’s humorless. There is writing that is entirely serious, and it doesn’t ring true to me, because I think, oftentimes, life is very, very funny. Even the worst, most humiliating, savage disappointments in retrospect have elements of bleak humor.
6. I’m a very liberal person.
7. I wasn’t good at the sciences; I wasn’t a good enough athlete. The only thing I could do was mow lawns. So I thought that writing or teaching was what I wanted to do.
8. I think it’s almost impossible to edit something to death. I think you can make things better almost indefinitely.
9. I grew up watching Cinemax, the late-night Cinemax of the ’80s and early ‘90s.
10. The stock market is for people who live in Manhattan and summer in the Hamptons, for people who can afford fancy cars — a Mercedes, say.
11. I didn’t really get serious about my own writing until I was convinced it was something that I wanted to do, that I wanted to spend that much time alone.
12. I like ‘Reanimator,’ and I like ‘Evil Dead 2.’ But I really like the Corman movies from the late ’60s and early ’70s, and my favorite is ‘The Mask of Red Death’ with Vincent Price because — spoiler alert — but at the end of the movie, Vincent Price, he’s the evil prince, and to kill him, his court just, like, dances at him.
13. I think the model that I look at is someone like Jakob Dylan, whose dad is obviously every bit if not more famous than mine. He’s a guy who sought to build a career on his own, doing something that’s a little bit different than what his father does.
14. Although it’s depressing to admit this, more than a handful of post-’Donnie Brasco’ Al Pacino roles would have been better served by Steve Buscemi.
15. I was pretty naive about how hard it would be to get out from under the family name. Not that I’m complaining.
16. My father has been a major force in the popular culture for a long, long time. He’s a fascinating person.
17. The last thing I want to do is to present something as ‘Stephen King, Part II,’ and have it be something that’s a big disappointment.
18. Everyday life is pretty funny and pretty ridiculous and occasionally really great, though not all the time, and that’s all part of it.
19. I’d love to be able to draw or play guitar or dance. All three at the same time — that’s the talent for me.
20. It’s not easy for me as a writer to suspend my disbelief in a fantastical zone. I can do it. But it’s more natural for me to write stories that are comic. Or hopefully comic.