Why that book of all the ones Vonnegut ever wrote?
Well, it’s very simple. For me, when I read it, it was a movie in my head. All the others are novels in my head. This one, when I read it every time I read it boom! it plays like a movie in my head. If it wasn’t a movie I never would’ve taken it on. For me, the ideas come the way they come. Sometimes I have ideas about plumbing, you know what I mean? I mean, just because you’re a musician doesn’t mean all your ideas are about music. So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come. In this case, Sirens of Titan, when I read it, it’s a movie. It plays like a movie, so it’s a movie idea. If I didn’t see it as a movie I’d have no faith in doing it. I feel it’s a movie; I feel enough confidence in my own vision of the movie of Sirens of Titan that I feel I could direct it, no problem. I see it. It’s that simple. If I didn’t see it, I never would have taken it on. It plays in my head I see the blocking, I see the act
