I've said, for a long time, my favorite part of my career is when I'm creating a new thing where I'm pulling from a new place.
Travelling is a great time to catch up on my reading. It's hard falling asleep in new places, but a good book always makes it easier.
With non-fiction, there is the struggle to be accurate. With fiction, it is a bit different: the desire to let imagination take you to new places.
I like any story that starts one place and really takes a huge journey to a whole new place; that people in their life want to take that journey. They want to be able to find things in their life that aren't working and work through them to a new place of change.
I love travelling and finding new places to go to.
A good espresso to me is a little bit salty; you just become used to a good taste. Anytime I go into a new place and they don't clean their machine properly or the water temperature isn't right, it tastes awful.
When someone dies instantly, then I think the well of grief and disbelief all mixed in with it is unfathomable. And when murder is involved, that just takes it into a whole new place. There is an extra dimension you just can't compute or deal with.
Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.
In a world of global competition and new technology, I think competition is coming from new places.
What I like to do when I get to a new place is buy local music early on and listen to it while we're driving around. I think it helps explain and illuminate the culture of where you are if local music is playing.
