I had no intention of providing any answers or solutions, because you'd only look a fool, but I did want to talk about what it's like to be in a stat….

To what degree are historians chroniclers of the truth and to what degree are they just novelists, frankly?.

I wrote 'Hereafter' quickly and without mapping it out too much or being too schematic. As an exercise, I think that was incredibly important..

As we go through life our relationship with our own mortality and our inevitable demise increases..

You can only do the best you can in the minute that you're doing it..

I am not a politics wonk. I like the idea of my writing reflecting more about who I am or other people..

Generally, I read nonfiction. Theres very little fiction that I enjoy enough to spend my time reading. I am generally a nonfiction guy..

The minute you become a leader of a country, you go into a very small club. You join that sort of pantheon of other world leaders..

Movies feel like work, and reading fiction feels like work, whereas reading nonfiction feels like pleasure..

I just try and do something good. But as a writer, you're slightly out of control..

Sometimes you are lucky enough to get offered things and there is no rhyme or reason..

The stuff that I have perhaps become known for that's based on fact, and English statesmen shouting at each other all the time, doesn't entirely repr….

When you make a choice as a writer about what it is you want to write, and what it is you're going to spend six months thinking about, you have to fa….

Having a phone call from Steven Spielberg was just a fantastic rite of passage. I loved it, and he was very focused, very likable, strictly business,….

If you're growing up in times of peace and live in a country where there's plenty of food and good healthcare, you grow up without any relationship w….

The thing that I'm most in love with is the thing that I'm writing at the moment..

There are so many other people involved in the making of a play or a television series or whatever... even if you're a novelist there's so much in ju….

The real beauty in my professional experience has been friendships and collaborations with filmmakers..

I never go back over something I've done and I never watch them again..

I read nonfiction. There's very little fiction that I enjoy enough to spend my time reading. I am generally a nonfiction guy..

We give each other a wide berth even if we have the flu, let alone... So, I think that's part of the stigma that people who have diseases suffer. It'….