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I love painting. I went to college in fine arts, and I still do it all the time.

I was a Fine Art major. You do a bit of everything until the final year, when you specialise. I did pencil drawing and sculpture. It's a pretty well-rounded fine art education. I thought that it was viable option to make a living out of art. I'm not sure if I was thinking realistically; maybe I never was. But it had great appeal.

I was an art student at the time, like thousands of others.

I was a painter, then a novelist, then a journalist, then a screenwriter, and now I'm a director, and it feels all part of the same continuum. One led to the other, and it just feels like the natural confluence of all the ways of storytelling that I've been doing for almost 30 years.

Writing is my job. I don't think of it as art.

I became an art major, took every art class my school had to offer. In college, I majored in Advertising Art and Design.

When I was in high school, I thought I might be an artist. I was very good at drawing and painting.

The relationship between art and a job is not quite linear, but I really love any and all manifestations of art, really respect any kind of artistic impulse, whether it's paintings and sculptures or really good filmmaking or music. I really see the relationships between these different mediums as very fluid.

I was a visual artist primarily and a writer, even from a very young age.