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De Abaitua interview (1998) [ edit ] Hollywood, television and film is not my prime area of interest. Quotes from several hours of an "Alan Moore Interview" by Matthew De Abaitua (1998), later published in Alan Moore: Conversations (2011) edited by Eric L. Berlatsky Science looks at the universe, doesn’t see itself there, doesn’t see mind there, so you have a world in which mind has no place. There is only one awareness here, that is trying out different patterns. We are going to have to come to some resolution about a lot of things in the next twenty years time, our notions of time, space, identity. There is something strange looming on the human horizon. If you draw a graph of all our consciousness, there is a point we seem to be heading towards. I can’t see coherent political structures in the traditional sense lasting beyond the next twenty years, I don’t think that would be possible. The origin of money is something to do with representational thinking. I like a film where you can see every penny of the budget up there on the screen. To me, energy is information – I think you can make that bold a statement. Fascism becomes less and less possible. We have to accept that we are moving towards some sort of anarchy. We haven’t got a king neuron that tells all the other neurons what to do. It seems to me to be a more emotionally natural way of working with other people. There is a certain amount of sham in shamanism. I understand that the word ‘occult’ means hidden, but surely that is not meant to be the final state of all this information, hidden forever. There is a channel that I have called the god Mercury, some sort of information source I have named. There is one particular entity that I feel a particular affinity with. There is a late Roman snake god, called Glycon, he was an invention of the False Prophet Alexander. I’ve known a lot of people go mad over the years, and it is more distressing than people dying. People dying is quite natural, people going mad is the complete antithesis of that. There is a big event in the future and because time is not what we think it is, that event radiates in all directions. We are entering its field and have been for hundreds of years. We are starting to approach the core of it. It’s only science that cannot consider thought as a real event, and science is not reality. It’s a map of reality, and not a very good one. It’s good, it’s useful, but it has its limits. Organised religion has corrupted one of the purest, most powerful and sustaining things in the human condition. It has imposed a middle management, not only in our politics and in our finances, but in our spirituality as well. The difference between religion and magic … I think you could map that over those two poles of fascism and anarchism. Magic is closer to anarchism. Lees: It's the money, isn't it? You could shrug off anything but that. We both did well out of doing nothing, Abberline. Conspiracy Kitchen Sink: Royal cover-up, Masonic involvement, police complicity, ritualistic murder, paganism, time travel and baby Hitler. It's all here. The British Empire: Depicted as being in a state of decline, with references to General Gordon's death in the Mahdi uprisings. Lois Lane: Pizza. After that, if Jonathan's quiet, I thought maybe bed with a bottle of wine. And after that, I figure we just live happily ever after. Sound good to you? Jordan: Lois, my love... [turns and winks to the reader as he closes the door] What do you think? V for Vendetta (1989) [ edit ] This is just a sample, for more from this work, see V for Vendetta.

Nigel Hawthorne was originally cast as Sir William Gull, [10] but on July 26, 2000, it was announced that Hawthorne had withdrawn from the role because of his terminal cancer. He was replaced by Ian Holm. [9] The disparity in height between Hawthorne and the much shorter Holm forced some of the scenes to be altered. Hawthorne died two months after the film's release. [ citation needed] Panelling Parallax: The Fearful Symmetry of William Blake and Alan Moore", ImageTexT Vol. 3, No. 2, (Winter 2007) The K Foundation are interesting and lively, a good laugh and they mean it. They are very dedicated to their irrational ideas, which I am wholeheartedly in favour of. … There is an underground again. Probably kill it stone dead to call it that. But I get the sense that there is an underground again, it’s not as self-conscious as it was in the Sixties. He said he sees his art as a vehicle to help people have positive transformative experiences. In that regard, he argued art can be as powerful as psychedelic drugs or magical practices, some of which Moore has tried throughout his life. Material existence is entirely founded on a phantom realm of mind, whose nature and geography are unexplored.

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On the issue of creativity, from the interview with Channel 4, "V for Vendetta: the man behind the mask" (11 January 2012) The more I look at most of the art movements, it’s all occultism, when you get down to it. The Surrealists were openly talking about being magicians.

If I write a crappy comic book, it doesn't cost the budget of an emergent Third World nation. When you've got these kinds of sums involved in creating another two hours of entertainment for Western teenagers, I feel it crosses the line from being merely distasteful to being wrong. To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate — unlike most films. We don’t have a tradition of masked heroes really anywhere else in the world apart from America,” Moore said in an interview with RT’s Sophie Shevardnadze. “I mean, Guy Fawkes, who the ‘V for Vendetta’ mask is based upon – that wasn’t a mask, that was his face,” he said. Ditto for Robin Hood.It is beginning, Netley. Only just beginning. For better or worse, the twentieth century. I have delivered it. Som-Som would later learn that the girl's name was Book. Ambiguous and suggestive sentences swirled out from the maroon bud of her nipple. Verses of elegant and cryptic passion followed the orbit of her left eye. Her fingers dripped with poetry. Groth, Gary (February 1991). "Last Big Words — Alan Moore on 'Marvelman', 'From Hell', 'A Small Killing,' and being published." The Comics Journal 140.