I was raised by television. It was my first cultural window. It was a constant companion.

I find the constraints of drama actually freeing: It brings everything down to character and action.

As someone with a novelistic background, I just didn't have much interest in creating stories by committee. I don't think you necessarily get the best story through that approach.

It’s better to not have a reputation than a bad one.

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

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

My ultimare goal is, without illusion and without sentimentality, merely by telling the truth as I see it, to break your heart. If I can break your heart and cause your awareness to expand to include another person's experience, even a fictional person's experience, and to inhabit for a moment their sorrow and suffering, then I think it expands us as people.