I know that when I grew up I was pretty sheltered, and didn't come to understand much about the world until I was in my really late teens and early twenties, and that process continues.

I've never really socialized; I've always been anti-social and preferred to be at home. I was never, even my late teens and early twenties, into clubs and parties and stuff like that.

I have this sense that I didn't really start growing up until my twenties.

I really respond to diversity, a broader landscape, with actors of different ages and races and backgrounds.

I was late to the Internet. I didn't really understand what it was. I didn't know what an email was.

I think certainly if I'd started getting published when I was in my early twenties, I was quite sheltered then and didn't know anything much about the world. I hadn't had any direct experience of how the world works.