India, Aug. 18 -- From where did you get the idea for Black Bag?

I read an original experiment in a psychology essay about attraction theory, about why we love the people we love or are friends with the people we're friends with. And the original experiment from 1967 was mentioned in a footnote. I was just reading this essay sort of out of interest, really, but Black Bag really captured my attention straight away. And it just struck me as something that had potential to talk about, I suppose, to talk about the artist, the writer, the actor, any kind of artist really, in the 21st century and what your status is, what the frustrations of that are, how you can try and still be committed to your art at a time when it doesn't feel particularl...