Killing characters on television has become an easy short cut to cathartic emotion.

For me as a storyteller, I want to follow the characters and the story through what they organically demand.

I was raised in a heavily Catholic family. Early and consistent encounters with mysticism.

Art was always for me an escape and a way to relate to the world around me.

I've found that all weak people share a basic obsession - they fixate on the idea of satisfaction. Anywhere you go men and women are like crows drawn by shiny objects. For some folks, the shiny objects are other people, and you'd be better off developing a drug habit.

If landscape is a character for me, then it helps if I'm familiar with it and I already have a take on it.

Whatever story you're telling in Louisiana, the landscape is going to become a character in it.