My mother told me many stories about her childhood in Cuba. Living there had a profound impact on her and how she regards herself.

I shy away from plot structure that depends on the characters behaving in ways that are going to eventually be explained by their childhood, or by some recent trauma or event. People are incredibly complicated. Who knows why they are the way they are?

I have spent a lot of time in the art world, and I guess I do listen to how people speak. I'm interested in what they say and how they say it.

People who experience themselves as authentic are also experiencing themselves as myth, but that's not the narrative they're going with.

It's amazing how life conspires to set you up with what you need.

L.A. is a great place to write because you have a lot of space. I have a big office at home, I can leave the doors open. Flowers bloom all year. But it's unglamorous in all the right ways.

I don't really see art as structured by logic.