I do think about my readers when I’m writing but I never write down to them. I never say ’ Oh this idea is too complicated for them.’ or ’ I don’t want to have this symbolic structure, because it won’t resonate with them.’ I never think about that, because I think that teenagers are infinitely intellectually capable. As long as we grant them intelligence they will show us that intelligence.
Henry Jenkins and I, in conversation at MIT, after I gave the first Julie Schwartz Memorial Lecture, a few years ago.
This is the first half of the talk.