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

I think one of the great joys of being a writer is you can transcend everything, even your own sex, what century you live in, and how you think. I found it quite natural to think as a male because I actually think that as a female, one often thinks in the mind of a male in terms of eroticism. You think about what the other person feels. So it's not that hard to imagine being that person.

Writing is a particular kind of frustration, which is why when I was making the structure for the novel I visualized it for myself with a color-coded board so I could see it.

Every work coming from the creator is about getting the demons out, and each character in those stories had a different personal crisis to get through.

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

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

One of the things that's good for me is that I can go from one art form to another. Because I think if I had to write another novel now I would really not be good in my head anymore. It's too much. The frustration is so intense of knowing that this structure is right around the corner. Writing is a particular kind of frustration.