I'm not someone who is driven by big external stories. I like big emotional stories.
I am keen to work in romantic stories and dramas.
TV is a different animal these days. You can bring together really smart writing and directing, in-depth character development and really meaty political and emotional stories.
Each country has its own way of communicating a narrative and, through that, expressing family experiences in emotional stories.
I've always thought that, as a romance writer, I had the best job in the world. I sit around all day making up emotion-drenched, conflict-laden stories that push my heroes and heroines to the edge of sanity. Then I give them a happy ending.
I just love the days when you come out of the archives with half a dozen excellent descriptions or poignant accounts of personal experiences.
I'm all about the story. And the stories I remember tend to be the ones of sorrow, or family history, or revelation of the self.
Any show I'm working on, I want the stories to always be about something, and to have the potential to be emotional. That's the kind of story that I like.
I say, 'I write romance, women's fiction, chick lit.' I think it all fits very comfortably under the same umbrella. Basically, I write books for women - books about relationships: books that make you laugh and sometimes make you cry a little.
Spreading the positivity is just as important as telling the difficult stories.
I like stories that affect families.
'Romeo and Juliet,' 'Manon,' 'Giselle' - they are not stupid stories. They have fantastic characters. They have a big package of emotion.
Country music has the great stories.
I'd like to do more family dramas.
I'm not interested in anything but emotionally driven stories; that's why almost all of my work is exclusively anchored by women.
Individual storytelling is incredibly powerful. We as journalists know intuitively what scientists of the brain are discovering through brain scans, which is that emotional stories tend to open the portals, and that once there's a connection made, people are more open to rational arguments.
I want to tell stories that reflect how people are feeling.
