[On The Philippines:] ... eighty dialects and languages are spoken; we are a fragmented nation of loyal believers, divided by blood feuds and control….

My identity is linked to my grandmother, who's pure Filipino, as pure as you can probably get. And that shaped my imagination. So that's how I identi….

I love writing dialogue, and I think a lot of my writing is visual and very cinematic..

I think for a lot of so-called post-colonial peoples, there's a feeling of not being quite legitimate, of not being pure enough..