I was trained to look at colour, edges, to see negative space. I honestly think my greatest influence as a writer is from Cubism - the idea of a mult….

The quality of life decreases with heightened security..

One of the things that's good for me is that I can go from one art form to another..

Every milieu has something ridiculous about it - film-making, the music world, painting - because people who take themselves seriously become funny p….

I have a great drive to make things and sometimes I forget to slow down a little..

I'm fascinated by what makes up a self, how one becomes a self, how much is it an answer to others and how much is it an essence of self. We learn ho….

Writing is a particular kind of frustration, which is why when I was making the structure for the novel I visualized it for myself with a color-coded….

I never had any desire to become a well-known actress..

I'm fascinated by what makes up a self, how one becomes a self, how much is it an answer to others and how much is it an essence of self..

I saw Dolce Vita and my mind was blown by it, by the synthesis. I realised I wanted to be a filmmaker and started making films. I was writing screenp….

I'm really interested in the minutiae of different tones and what that explains - how people's backgrounds are reflected in minute details of how the….

I don't like getting patted down and taking off my shoes at the airport..

I was an anorexic, beer drinking, class cutting, doodling, shoplifting, skater chick that was into nature, art class, and the beach..

I was interested in the mystical element of humor - was humor part of creation? Is God laughing at us, or with us?.

Novels have become equally important to me as films. I consider myself a storyteller and passionately engaged in both of those disciplines..

I was 100 percent sure when I left university that I was going to be a painter..

I was always very curious about other people. I would always stare and my mother would say - just please close your mouth!.

One of the things that's good for me is that I can go from one art form to another. Because I think if I had to write another novel now I would reall….

Looking at paintings was a huge part of finding my way into the lush world of the 18th century..

I do think it is a kind of illness in the sense that it sets you apart, it injects you with an endless, unslakable thirst to keep making the thing. T….

When I left university I was sure that I was going to be a painter. Then I had a crisis, a revelation. I saw Dolce Vita and my mind was blown by it, ….