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,….

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

If you have distance from the events, then your story can work as an analogy or parable, rather than its literal narrative..

You're working with other people and sometimes it doesn't work out the way you want, and sometimes you didn't realise what a mistake you've made unti….

People test movies within an inch of their life, so that the entire audience experience is a uniform one..

You don't really work together with Clint Eastwood. I mean, he takes the script and he shoots it - and he shoots it very faithfully..

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'….

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….

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….

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

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….

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….