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I wanted 'Alien' to be all about claustrophobia.

From nine years old, I lived with fear. I saw our neighbours disappearing. I was scared that I would come home from school and my parents would not be there.

I had some fears as a kid, but I was also relatively fearless. Maybe that's a result of living half the time in reality and the other half in fantasy.

I was afraid of just about everything in this world, with the possible exception of my mother and I wasn't too sure about her.

It all changed when I realized I'm not the only one on the planet who's scared. Everyone else is, too.

I was not scared at all.

I was really scared to stay home alone when I was kid, and I would freak out whenever there was a noise after my parents left.

The first several years of my life were used to upload incredible amounts of fear, and I just became afraid of everything. I was afraid of my parents, afraid of my classmates, afraid of the streets of Washington, D.C. I would flinch at every gesture.