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Somehow, I realized I could write books about black characters who reflected my own experiences or otherworldly experiences - not just stories of history, poverty and oppression.

And I think it's very rare to have good stories, well written comedies.

I always crave to see more stories about and by people of color, particularly new work by young black writers.

I'm not going to be labeled a black filmmaker. I am not here to just tell black stories. I'm here to tell all kinds of stories, musicals and dramas.

All my work shares a kind of balance between black comedy and sad and despairing melancholy.

I came to Hollywood originally writing comedy and writing satire.

I played comedies and dramas.

I've had three novels published, and I was working a little bit in theater in Ireland. I wrote one film script just to see what it would turn out like.

I was very young, and I was on vacation with my family, and there was a retrospective of old films, and one of them was 'The Phantom of the Opera' with Claude Rains that was in color. It was something very important for my career because I began to follow these stories that were morbid.