I'm from the South, so while I personally find it impossible to live there, I still have a fondness for it as a geographical region.

I'm from the South, so while I personally find it impossible to live there, I still have a fondness for it as a geographical region.

If a scene is longer than three pages, it better be for a good reason.

I try to tell the best story, and the story that has some heart and some genuine terror and some social commentary and some comedy and some romance and some sex and some violence.

Obviously death is a theme I'm fascinated by.

Life is too mysterious to try to map it out. I've certainly lived long enough to know it will take you places you never thought it would take you - and some of those places are kind of wonderful.

I believe forgiveness is possible for everybody, for everything, but I'm a Buddhist.