But it's a very universal story and the thing is I was reluctant to answer that question because I don't want people latching on to a particular stereotype.
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That's why I write fiction, because I want to write these stories that people will read and find universal.
It's not a stereotype if it's always true.
Speaking as a mixed-race woman, there aren't many historical stories about people like me.
I think people are universal.
It's human nature that we come in our own flavours, and it doesn't make any sense to write a monochromatic or monocultural story unless you're doing something extremely small - a locked room-style story.
Every character when born is a stereotype.
It's more like can I build a group of characters and can I tell some universal truths that feel real and aren't formulaic in the spirit of filmmakers gone by who've told American stories that were personal and universal as well.
People are much deeper than stereotypes. That's the first place our minds go. Then you get to know them and you hear their stories, and you say, 'I'd have never guessed.'
In order to be universal, you have to be rooted in your own culture.
To me, there is nothing but puerility in a tale in which the human form - and local human passions and conditions and standards - are depicted as native to other worlds and universes.
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