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My stories are fundamentally about the love of family.

I like stories that affect families.

I grew up in a family where the love of stories is very strong. And there's also a love of performance. I think one reason stories were so important in my family was that we moved around a lot.

Stories in families are colossally important. Every family has stories: some funny, some proud, some embarrassing, some shameful. Knowing them is proof of belonging to the family.

Family tends to be one of the recurring themes in my fiction.

There is a common theme, though, in the stories I have told, which are usually associations of characters or families that are formed outside of a family circle.

To me, families are fascinating. I choose to explore it through comedy and through comic situations.

I find families intriguing, perhaps because I did not grow up in one. I was raised by a feminist, independent, single mother, a divorcee.

In my family, telling stories is just a way of life.

Because I didn't have brothers, I was always interested in the kids down the street that had four brothers in their family, so I became one of them - but it was not my family. I've always been attracted to temporary families. They tend to be lost characters.