I wanted to go so I could learn the rules and conventions in order to break them later on.

If I could bring 'The Tunnel' to life, I'd like to do it like that.

I tried to go to college in the U.K. a couple of times, but at that point, I think I was a little disillusioned with education. It wasn't giving me what I wanted it to. I needed freedom to create and do the things that I wanted to explore, and it wasn't really doing that: it was still very prescriptive.

My mum is a theatrical person. I saw a tape of a theatre project she did when I was a kid. I was really affected by the idea that my mum could turn herself into someone else for the purpose of telling a story.

It's like jazz: You learn the rules to break them - as long as you can break them in a meaningful way.

I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break.