I took a writing class in college, liked it, and my first year out of school I couldn't get a job, so I wrote a play.

People really do make the assumption that I had some weirdo Hollywood upbringing, but my parents are incredibly down-to-earth people who worked really hard to raise us in a way that was health.

You set up the story, but the characters start talking, and they go places that you didn't expect. You have to follow.

If I didn't find art valuable, I would stop doing my work and only work for justice.

For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

As long as I was well fed, I was a very, very nice child. I just used my imagination and played with Barbies. I was pretty easy.

The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.