What I find interesting about folklore is the dialogue it gives us with storytellers from centuries past.

I divide my time between homes in Arizona and England, six months a year in each place.

I was a great fan of Jim Henson.

I'd had no particular interest in the Southwest at all as a young girl, and I was completely surprised that the desert stole my heart to the extent it did.

What I find interesting about folklore is the dialogue it gives us with storytellers from centuries past.

We''re all misfits here,” he says, almost proudly. “That's why I started this squat, after all. For people like us, who don't fit in anywhere else. Halfies and homos and hopeless romantics, the outcast and outrageous and terminally weird. That's where art comes from, Jimmy, my friend. From our weirdnesses and our differences, from our manic fixations, our obsessions, our passions. From all those wild and wacky things that make each of us unique.

But for me, really, the written word is always stronger than film.