You just do the best you can, and when you're able to connect with people, and when you do, it's just incredibly gratifying.

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.

Whatever I watched, whatever I loved in 36 years of life on Earth, probably had some influence on me.

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

The work is where I tend to feel pressure - not so much in the reaction to it.

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.