Creativity is a gift, but if you don't know how to use it you might not even know it's there. There's a lot of creativity in the air, but it's meaningless if you're not open to receiving it.

I am, to be quite honest, sick of hero stories.

I lived in Indonesia for four years and I understand trance and magic and where it comes from.

I received from my experience in Japan an incredible sense of respect for the art of creating, not just the creative product. We're all about the product. To me, the process was also an incredibly important aspect of the total form.

We have often been attracted to the story of the other, the outcast. And he and I just loved working together, so it just kept happening, and our relationship is completely bound up with our work. We enjoy each other's art.

I've had male executives say that my lead character was unlikable because she slept with a lot of guys.

An artist is an entertainer, number one - a storyteller who takes people someplace, who gives them what they didn't know they wanted.