My mom took me to see Carnal Knowledge and The Wild Bunch and all these kind of movies when I was a kid.

As the acting class was going on, I just realized I just knew more about cinema than the other people in the class. I cared about cinema and they cared about themselves. But two, was actually at a certain point I just realized that I love movies too much to simply appear in them. I wanted the movies to be my movies.

I wasn't a predator. I didn't pick on other people all right, but people didn't beat me up.

I try not to get analytical in the writing process. I try to just kind of keep the flow from my brain to my hand as far as the pen is concerned and go with the moment and go with my guts.

To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.

I don't judge my characters, and that's my job not to judge them.

If there is something magic about the collaborations I have with actors it's because I put the character first.