Sometimes You Must Shed Your Skin To

My Mother Was Wonderfully Out About Her Dementia. She Would Sort Of - She Would Say To Me, I Came Out To The Window Cleaner About Having Dementia. You Know, I Love The Way That Verb For Coming Out Of The Closet Has Now Become So Socially Useful For All Sorts Of Situations, Like When You Need To Explain To The Window Cleaner That You Don't Know If You Paid Him Or Not.

The Film World Is Far More Male-dominated. I Mean, The Numbers Are Staggering At The Level Of How Many People On Set There Are, And Almost All The Trades In Film, There's A Lot More Men. So I Can See Without Anyone Intending To Be Biased [that] We Have Kind Of A Collective Choosing Of Men's Stories And A Collective Of Taking Men's Stories Seriously.

I Wrote The Novel [room], And Then I Thought, "this Could Work On Film, And I Want To Be The One To Do It." So I Went Ahead And Drafted It.

What Writing Room Taught Me Was That I Know Exactly How To Be The Perfect Mother, But I'm Not Willing To Do It For More Than Ten Minutes At A Time.

You Cannot Predict Literary Success; The Only Way You Can Possibly Aim For It Is To Do Your Thing And Do It Well.