I'm trying to get under people's skin in a way. I don't like films that go in one ear and out the other.

Although filmmaking is collaborative and involves trust, ultimately it is the director who holds the whole picture together in their head.

I think it's restrictive to typecast myself as a novelist because I enjoy other forms of expression. I love literature and I love cinema.

The concentration of the elite athlete is akin perhaps to the concentration of the writer.

I think every single person perceives things differently. We are all singular.

I don't think good films have messages.

The point is the 'me' that you see before you is not the 'me' in my private little space, shape-shifting into the writing role, nor is it the 'me' that works with the actors. Here, at the end of the film doing interviews, I feel like I'm in disguise.