I listen to Morricone, the famed Italian film composer, while I'm working.

I like writing for movies. It's nice to be alone working on fiction in your room, and then it's nice to be in a room with a bunch of people working on a movie.

Working on movies made me realize how fluid the medium of film was.

I have an Italian comedy at the Venice Film Festival.

When you start writing a picture book, you have to write a manuscript that has enough language to prompt the illustrator to get his or her gears running, but then you end up having to cut it out because you don't want any of the language to be redundant to the pictures that are being drawn.

This is like a cookie, it tastes like a cookie having sex with a doughnut.