It's Not Just Nyu. There Are Days

But I Think There's A Genuine Joy, Too, A Sense That No Matter What, Even If My Stomach's Growling, I'm Going To Dance. That's What I Want To Leave People With At The End Of The Play. After All This, People Still Know How To Live.

Becoming A Mother Has Helped Make Me A Tougher, Stronger Writer.

We Didn't Have Television Until I Was About Eight Years Old, So It Was Either The Movies Or Radio. A Lot Of Radio Drama. That Was Our Television, You Know. We Had To Use Our Imagination. So It Was Really Those Two Things, And The Comics, That I Immersed Myself In As A Child.

Growing Up In The Philippines, I Loved All Kinds Of Movies. We Had A Very Healthy Film Industry There When I Was A Child. It's Now Gotten Very Limited. They Only Make Action Movies And Hard-core Exploitation Movies. Women Get Raped; Men Get Shot.

[on The Philippines:] ... Eighty Dialects And Languages Are Spoken; We Are A Fragmented Nation Of Loyal Believers, Divided By Blood Feuds And Controlled By The Church.