Every milieu has something ridiculous about it - film-making, the music world, painting - because people who take themselves seriously become funny pretty quickly.

Nobody is so weird others can't identify with them.

I had a lot of great lakes of ignorance that I was up against, I would write what I knew in almost like islands that were rising up out of the oceans. Then I would take time off and read, sometimes for months, then I would write more of what I knew, and saw what I could see, as much as the story as I could see. And then at a certain point I had to write out what I thought was the plot because it was so hard to keep it all together in my head. And then I started to write in a more linear way.

I'm fascinated by what makes up a self, how one becomes a self, how much is it an answer to others and how much is it an essence of self.

That's one thing I find about having children - it does unlock a door that separates you from other women who've had children.

One of the things that's good for me is that I can go from one art form to another.

Novels have become equally important to me as films. I consider myself a storyteller and passionately engaged in both of those disciplines.