I know the musical world as well as I know the comedy world.
I want to go deep into fashion; I want to go maybe into acting. There's a lot of stuff I would like to go into.
Luckily, each generation brings forth great writers, actors, directors, and designers.
I am equally a writer and an actor and a director.
It's an incredibly supportive and friendly field. Older people want to foster and help younger people. Which is not true of all creative fields, but it is true of comics, and it is true of radio.
Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are but with how they might be - in short, with design.
The people who work in the fashion industry and the people who work in the film industry have a lot in common. They're very creative. Their eye is very aesthetic.
Every milieu has something ridiculous about it - film-making, the music world, painting - because people who take themselves seriously become funny pretty quickly.
This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion.
When you're in theater or the circus or film - to me it's all one - affairs happen. People fall in love.
I wouldn't want everybody to be an art or literature major, but the world would be poorer - figuratively, anyway - if we were all coding software or running companies. We also want musicians to awaken our souls, writers to lead us into fictional lands, and philosophers to help us exercise our minds and engage the world.
All of those art-based fields are similar in that they're all hard to make a living in and they all require an intense amount of training and discipline.
I'm a people person, very approachable. I go out every night, tons of functions. I love all facets of this industry... Music, film, TV, books, art. I love being around creative people.
After my schooling, I was not thrilled by the idea of treading the usual doctor-engineer line. I wanted to pursue something artistic, and I was good at drawing. The options before me were architecture, fashion, and interior designing.
As a child I'd sit at dinner parties with artists, authors and musicians, some of the best people in their fields. I couldn't avoid the path I took having grown up in such an artistic environment.
It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal.
Writing is one of those jobs that everyone has an opinion on. I don't think this is a bad thing.
