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I've done a lot of movies based on real people, real situations, non-fiction books, magazine articles, life rights.

It's always been my dream to just continually do really cool indie movies - character-driven stuff.

I do have a small collection of traditional SF ideas which I've never been able to sell. I'm known as a fantasy writer and neither my agent nor my editors want to risk my brand by jumping genre.

I take stuff from real life and try to make a character out of it. And I try to live the world of the characters a little bit.

I have done a lot of things outside of Science Fiction, but there has been an almost disproportionate amount of that genre in my body of work. I don't know what to make of it.

I really want to be associated with great projects and character driven projects and films. I have to feed my soul, and keep feeling like an artist and keep being challenged.

I just want to work with good filmmakers and do good projects that mean something to me and play interesting characters. That's really it.

I'm realistic about my career as a novelist. I'm certainly not a superstar and far, far from a household name, but I feel successful.

I don't really consider my work, on the whole, 'fringe' in my own mind; science fiction and fantasy have been pretty solidly in the mainstream for a while.