I'm very lucky. I actually like screenwriting. I rarely feel a sense of doom going to my desk..

Real life is messy, and drama is a shaped version of real life..

There isnt a more important issue in the world than global warming. Even the Cold War and the Bay of Pigs crisis were a notional threat..

India is desperately romantic, utterly unashamed of its sentimentality, its generosity, its fierce pride and massive heart..

For me, as a writer who comes from quite a naturalistic tradition, British screenwriting is quite delicate, quite small, and rarified in a way..

I guess my approach to adapting books is to treat them with a deep respect on one level and at another level part them to one side and go, 'I'm doing….

I learned to stop being English about things like love. If you make a film in England about love, it's hugely complicated. It's all about saying what….

Keep your central character moving, discovering, learning..

When you make a movie, a dramatization based on the real experience of a living subject, you cant airbrush that away into to a perfect movie arc..

One doesn’t question a miracle..

What's important in the filmmaking process has stayed the same. Keep it small, keep it personal, keep it authentic, work with people you like and tru….

As a child growing up in a grey-skied Yorkshire village, I would occasionally happen upon a Bollywood movie on the television. After a few minutes wa….

They say crying makes the heart lighter.