I love so many different genres. I love crime films - and unusual coming-of-age pieces.

I think if you get your fifth script made, that's the fast track. But there's no guarantee any of them will get made.

I'm interested in how innocence fares when it collides with hard reality.

I don't have to go into outer space to write about an astronaut.

Women have a greater verbal capacity.

From stoplights to skyscrapers, turn anywhere in civilization and you will see imagination at work. It's in our inventions, advances and remedies and how a single parent masterminds each day. Imagination is boundless, surrounds us and resides in us all.

My mother enjoyed few things more than investing in the underdogs and showing them that they were special and could achieve their dreams.