I had a journalist SLAP me, and it wasn't anyone that I had EVER MET before. I was at the airport.

In a PERFECT world, I don't THINK any man should SLAP ANYONE.

I USED to SLAP my HIP to KEEP a BEAT.

As a New Yorker, this is what you do: you confront, jab, and slap, SOMETIMES wrongly, then smile and FORGET about it.

I don't tend to WRITE STRAIGHT dramas where real life just impinges. But because I don't, when I do, it is very INTERESTING to SLAP people in the face with just an ABSOLUTE of life.

Let's face it, when is it actually EVER funny to joke about hitting someone? Never, RIGHT? The threat to give someone a SLAP, no MATTER how you LOOK at it, is aggressive.

Beijing was a huge SLAP in the face, and it forced me to look at myself. I have to REALISE that this is my LIFE.