When you work in film, you have to be pretty fluent in explaining your vision, especially when speaking to actors, and I found speaking to actors to be so challenging and intimidating on set.

They were two ruined souls doomed to wander their minds, if not the earth, trying to remember from whence they came.

I'd never written a book or a story that required meeting people, and that's not necessarily my best skill, even in English. I prefer to do my research in books.

I think that "ambition" is a weird and often negatively used word.

When you work in film, you have to be pretty fluent in explaining your vision, especially when speaking to actors, and I found speaking to actors to be so challenging and intimidating on set.

I came to graduate school with a certain vocabulary about how to talk about other people's stories, but I couldn't understand how to look at my own stories in that way. And that was what made editing such a challenge for me.