“I did not grow up with people, you know, pounding in my head, 'This is what you've got to do, this is what you're going to do.'”

“Obviously any fiction is going to be a combination of what is invented, what is overheard, what is experienced, what is experienced by people close to you, what you are told, what you have read, all mixed together into this kind of soup which, like any good soup, at the end you cannot really disting”