Creativity Quote by H. R. Giger

Giger talks like someone backing away from his own altar, half-amused that worship is happening without him. The line is a tangle of fatigue, modesty, and sly control: he admits he "need[s] to more carefully read" Akron's text, but immediately frames it as "too much, too much fantasy" and blames the rest on being "busy with other stuff". It's disarming on purpose. By calling the writing "fantasy", he both distances himself from grand interpretation and quietly marks it as excessive - an overgrowth of meaning around work that already has a reputation for swallowing viewers whole.

The subtext is a familiar dynamic in art culture: the critic or scholar arrives with the microscope; the artist shrugs, then peeks through it anyway. Giger's "it's funny, it's nice" lands like a small laugh at the machinery of art discourse, but it isn't contempt. He sounds genuinely pleased that someone is doing the hard, obsessive labor of reading - the kind of labor his biomechanical worlds tend to provoke. There's also a pragmatic self-awareness here: he knows the Giger brand invites mythmaking, and he refuses to fully ratify it. Not because interpretation is wrong, but because too much interpretation can start to feel like fanfic with footnotes.

The final turn - "now I know a little bit more about that" - is the key. He grants the interpreter power without surrendering authorship. The artist, famously associated with nightmares rendered as design, lets scholarship become a mirror: not truth, not canon, but a new angle he can live with.