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 brothers were the ones who taught me about mythology and storytelling, and showed me how to do stop-motion animation.

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

Characters who experience great trauma will sometimes create an escape.

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.

I don't think there's enough breadth to the stories told about African-Americans.