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When I first came to New York, I was surprised by all these out teenagers who were openly on the street being who they were. That intrigued me because I was 27 and still struggling with being myself.
What I can say is that all my characters are searching for their souls, because they are my mirrors. I'm someone who is constantly trying to understand my place in the world, and literature is the best way that I found in order to see myself.
I started doing some interviews with elderly people in the family because I knew they would pass away and we would lose the power of their story.
At the very least, we want everything to go on hold for a while because there is this feeling that we're heading down a path in a way that we never, ever intended when we were 18 and dreaming of what life would be like.
I don't know - personally, I don't watch many films where the violence itself is the main entertainment, because I find them boring.
And the insidious thing is that people will either see a movie because it did well last weekend or won't see it because it didn't do well.
So, I decided that whatever I was, wanted to do with my life, it would have to do, it would have to have something to do with the exploration and doing new things.
I had to take driving lessons in New York, which were really weird because it's not the safest thing in the world.
'The Names' is a story about a woman who might feel that she's in a kind of maze. She's unable to find her way forward or out because she can't see the whole picture.
