I'm a theatre person, that's who I am. I'm happy to make sojourns into the world of movies but I'm basically a theatre director that potters off and does a couple of movies.
If one book's done this well, you want to write another one that does just as well. There's that horror of the second novel that doesn't match up.
I come from a modest background. I put myself through college and law school and a postdoctorate program in tax law.