The writer presents himself to the blank page not with an open passport but an open heart.

I'm not sure where I'm from! I was born in London. My father's from Ghana but lives in Saudi Arabia. My mother's Nigerian but lives in Ghana. I grew up in Boston.

As a writer, one is obliged to release her words, to let them live in the world on their own.

Sight is subjective. We learned that in class.

I live in Rome and five minutes from my flat is a church where you can walk in and see this beautiful Caravaggio. Just the way this man uses dark paint: dark to create dark to create dark, the layering of the darkness in his work. I just race home: I want to create!

When writing screenplays, it's a matter of remembering to leave off the page anything and everything that doesn't appear on the screen.

The writer presents himself to the blank page not with an open passport but an open heart.