Cornelia Funke

They are shooting The Thief Lord in Venice at the moment.

My daughter, Anna, is almost 15, and my son, Ben, is almost 10.

I love to read aloud.

Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.

When I do my makeup, it kind of helps me get into the character that I'm trying to portray.

My feeling for reality TV isn't ironic, guilty, or apologetic. Reality TV is one of the few remaining modes of popular entertainment in which characterization is permitted as plot.