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August 18, 2003 — Kurt Loder from MTV had the opportunity to interview Mr. William Gibson... Here's what Mr. Gibson said when asked about the Matrix...
Loder: How do you feel about the "Matrix" movies appropriating so many of your concepts?
Gibson: All pop, and perhaps particularly the greatest pop, is inherently recombinant. Genre itself is a recombinant mechanism. "Neuromancer" was a very consciously, very eclectically recombinant work. I didn't invent computers, AI or the black vinyl cat suit. I thought "The Matrix," which I quite liked, was more like a Phil Dick piece in some sort of cyber-noir drag than like my own work. My friend Roger dragged me to see it, because he liked it and I'd been reluctant to see it. I still haven't seen "Reloaded," because word of mouth leads me to assume it's got a case of the middles. That trilogy thing, again.
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