One can only really travel if one lets oneself go and takes what every place brings without trying to turn it into a healthy private pattern of one's own and I suppose that is the difference between travel and tourism.
I think I'm more bonded, emotionally and in a craft sense, to films that tell extraordinary stories about extraordinary destinies.
I Have traveled 201 countries including Hell (Norway), and the strangest thing I've seenwas man
People don't have these tidy little redemption arcs in reality the way they do in movies.
I like to show ordinary people reacting to extraordinary circumstances. It's an opportunity for adventure, and I like women to have adventures. There's been far too little of it with women.
It seems that no two people came to this specialized area of work via the exact same route.
I've been almost everywhere. And then in some of the craziest places where you wouldn't imagine anybody knowing you. There's people at the airport. There's people everywhere.
My books are about ordinary people caught up in extraordinary situations.
My characters are always on the outside; the spotlight's not on them. But they do get somewhere.
