The most terrifying thing I can think of is being alone - and I mean utterly alone, like no one else in the world alone - at night. That's the nucleus of the first story in my collection and it's also where the title came from for the book.
My movies continue to be found and be sold because there's something going on in them.
In America there is institutional racism that we all inherit and participate in, like breathing the air in this room - and we have to become sensitive to it.