Why live life from dream to dream, and dread the day when dreaming ends.

Everything I make starts very personally.

To be honest, there is a tourists' trail; my family had a farm and a gas station, and you can go and see my birthplace, though where I lived is actually under a freeway now.

The ugly duckling is a misunderstood universal myth. It's not about turning into a blonde Barbie doll or becoming what you dream of being; it's about self-revelation, becoming who you are.

All good, clean stories are melodrama, it's just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it.

Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else's.

In the '80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.