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I like movies about people and movies with characters; that's what I'm drawn to as a person who likes to create these characters within the story, but I like it all, really.

I am always naturally drawn to heroines that have human flaws because I enjoy people that have lived their life with courage and make big successes and big failures.

I just don't see myself as the heroine in my own narrative.

Most mainstream male fiction is littered with heroines, and female characters are basically so great, you want to fall in love with them.

I have no regret about making 'Heroine'; rather, I am happy I made it. I never shun my films; I stick to it.

I like strong female characters. I try to write them as role models for young girls.

My parents told me any and every fairy-tale from all around the world. I usually gravitated towards ones with interesting, strong heroines.

I love developing children as characters. Children rarely have important roles in literary fiction - they are usually defined as cute or precious, or they create a plot by being kidnapped or dying.

I'm interested in female friendships and family relationships. So I don't write the traditional romance, where you just have the hero and the heroine's love story. I like intertwining relationships.

I love novels where not much 'happens' but where the interest is in the ideas and analyses of characters.