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As a writer, I'm convinced that encouraging children to write fiction, to hook into that marvelous machine called the imagination, has to be good for everyone.

After 'Kidulthood,' I was called in to a meeting and told that I didn't write women very well. I was very annoyed.

As a kid, I was just writing scripts and taking whatever film classes I could in college.

I did have a child, and I was reading a lot of picture books to her, but at the same time writing a children's book was something that I'd been wanting to do for many years, pretty much since the start of my career.

I wrote every day. I don't think I could have written 'Just Kids' had I not spent all of the 80s developing my craft as a writer.

I think probably you can either write for kids, or you can't. That ability to imaginatively be a child and see the world as a child and feel and think like a child - you either have that ability or you don't.

I love the idea of making a movie for kids but it's got to be that, with my take on it.

I sold my first script when I was 21 - this kids' adventure movie that never got made. I just bought that one back, actually. I'm pretty psyched about it.

It's hilarious to me that by writing an obscene fake children's book I am mistaken for a parenting expert.

I know some children's writers write for specific children, or for the children they once were, but I never have. I just thought children might like my sort of visual humour.