“I honestly don’t know why I write stories or make movies, but I always have. When I was a very small child, I vented these urges by telling my friends wild stories about dump trucks full of candy being delivered from my grandmother, or far away islands at the bottom of the world that I visited with my dad. It wasn’t long before I realized that this was called lying, and that the other kids did not like my stories. As a result, I started quietly writing my “lies” down. It was more of a lonely process, but I have been doing it ever since.”