I'm an underdog person, so I align myself with those who seem to be not considered valuable in polite society.

Growing up in the Philippines, I loved all kinds of movies. We had a very healthy film industry there when I was a child. It's now gotten very limited. They only make action movies and hard-core exploitation movies. Women get raped; men get shot.

I'm preparing for a multimedia theater piece, Airport Music, that's coming up in New York City.

Writers and scholars have emerged in recent times (some familiar, some new) to continue to challenge the notion of a literature that encompasses the world - and reaffirms our existence in it. It is a multicultural vision that embraces and includes our shrinking universe; it is a multicultural vision that the white man fears and a vision that the rest of us can celebrate.

I'm an underdog person, so I align myself with those who seem to be not considered valuable in polite society.

Music is very influential to my writing, as are theater and film.

I love writing dialogue, and I think a lot of my writing is visual and very cinematic.