Norman Spinrad

I must admit to being greatly influenced by Joseph Campbell's The Hero With a Thousand Faces.

I get work because I'm primarily a novelist but I've become script doctor. I can work back and forth between French and English.

The world has become more complex as technology and easy travel mixes cultures without homogenizing them.

I thank Marc Jacobs so much for giving me the opportunity to design a shoe for Louis Vuitton, but the thing that broke my heart most was when they said, 'You're finished. The shoe's finished.'

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

We don't believe the market can be dominated by one company in e-commerce in China - namely Alibaba. The Chinese market is very wide and deep, with a huge population.