I Come From A Massive Family, And

When I Look At Female Characters, I Want To Recognize Myself In Them - My Trials, My Tribulations As A Mother, As A Wife, As A Lover, As A Daughter.

The Depth Of Exploration Of The Male Psyche And The Female Psyche Is Uneven. I See Further, Deeper Renderings Of What It Means To Be A Man.

The Nature Of Evil, The Nature Of It, It Exists. It Exists And I Think Within Us We Have The Tools. If We Have The Will, We Can Combat It. I Think The Power Is Within Us And It Lies In Our Own Conceptualization Of God And Positivity And Compassion And Love.

Just Because I’m Telling A Story About A Woman Losing Faith Is Not My Rebellion Against What I Grew Up In. If Anything, It Really Affected The Way I Approached The Story, And In Fact, Approach Everything. I Don’t Judge My Characters.

I’m Someone Who Can Sit In A Buddhist Temple, And I Can Sit With Pentecostals Or With Orthodox Jews, And I Still Feel Like I Am In Tune With All Of Them.