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I'm really interested in stories about identity - who I am now versus who I used to be.

I don't feel like my films are about gender; they are about identity - but a different slant on identity.

I was a weird but definite kid, and there were essentially no gender roles for me to fit into.

I had always been a really peculiar child. My mom would tell you I grew up roughing it with the boys and playing with action figures and toy cars and stuff, but I also had an Easy Bake Oven... I find it amazing that in a really weird way, people are mad that they can't figure out my gender.

I think of my gender as a part of my complex humanity.

When I was a kid, I wanted to be a boy. I really had gender issues.

Perhaps, all writers walk such a line. In general - as we all do in our dreams - I believe I put something of myself into all the characters in my novels, male as well as female.

As a young teenager I looked desperately for things to read that might excuse me or assure me I wasn't the only one, that might confirm an identity I was unhappily piecing together.

When I was born, there was a very isolated idea of what it meant to be a man or a woman, and you belonged to one gender or the other.

It took me a long time to realise that I was a girl as a teenager. At that point I never really believed it. I looked like a boy for a long time. Now, finally, I feel like a woman.