Ian Watson. Photo by Adrià Guxens |
Ian
Watson is a man with a lot to talk about, and maybe because he’s a writer, he
talks very gracefully about anything; he is a man who will not let you do the
interview like you have planned, he will make you improvise; he is a man who
talks so much that you will need to ask the questions while he is puffing one
of the two cigarettes he’ll smoke during the interview; he is a man who talks
about things that are so incredible that will make you wonder if they are
entirely true and he is a man who will ask you to make him look wise, ironic
and with a dry sense of humour in the picture. At the Celsius 232 Festival Adria’s
News talks to Ian Watson, who has recently published El Inca de Marte and 50
Recetas con Nombre, to know why he thinks there are tides in the
Mediterranean, why he hasn’t read The
Lord of the Rings yet and, especially, to know how was working with Stanley
Kubrick to develop the story of Artificial
Intelligence, film that ended up being directed by Steven Spielberg.