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I don't know if I was so much of an outsider until after I started doing films. That put me on the outside. I grew up in Texas, and I wasn't the child of industry parents, and I didn't have a lot of friends in the industry or anything like that.

I think that part of being a good journalist, part of being an awake member of the world you're in, is to view yourself as an outsider, and I always have, to some degree.

I started out in the journalism program, but I got kicked out. I wasn't very good at it. It wasn't where I wanted to be ultimately.

My father was a newspaper editor, so I was surrounded by journalists my entire life. I think the fact that he was so well known may be why I chose to go into magazines and move to the States at a young age.

Well, my background is journalism. I don't have any creative-writing experience except for one class I took as a sophomore in college.

There are a lot of really good skills you get from doing journalism - it completely changed my world and how I interact with other people.

I allegedly am an outsider writer, so I write from the perspective of somebody who doesn't completely fit in. But at the same time, I can state the fact that I don't know of any good writer who is not an outsider writer.

I don't think there's any connection between my journalism career and my film career. They are two totally different mediums and very different skills.

I've never had any interest at all in being a journalist or writing some sort of historically accurate autobiography.