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The older I get, the more interest I have in writing other kinds of music.
I never stopped working, but I did let my contract run out. And I didn't really actively pursue it.
I'm a modern Muslim. I pray, and if I have a question, I ask someone who is more educated in the religion than me.
My mother read nursery rhymes to me, and my grandmother told me folk stories, but as a child I had no interest in writing whatsoever.
I try to keep all my novels in print. Sometimes publishers don't agree with me as to their worth.
Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory. I like the atmospheres that result if episodes are narrated through the haze of memory.
Other filmmakers make their movies and put them out and that's that. For me, for some odd reason, it goes deeper than that.
I think statistics go in one ear and out the other. All of us respond to stories more than numbers.
I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were another.
