Making a film, I've learned, can be an exhausting process, due to the need for backing, distribution, etc.

I believe in the Biblical documents supporting Jesus. But I have no illusions about them. I think they contain many flaws, scribal errors, and so forth and they are only partial or fragmentary.

The prince is never going to come. Everyone knows that; and maybe sleeping beauty's dead.

That process by which you become a writer is a pretty lonely one. We don't have a group apprenticeship like a violinist might training for an orchestra.

My heart right now is totally connected to a book called The Servant of the Bones, which is not in any way connected with vampires or witches. It's about a new hero, a ghost, who really doesn't particularly like the job that he's been given. I'm in love with this hero and in love with his dilemma.

Fear is only good when you have a choice in things.

You never know the palette of the one you kill until the mind disgorges its finest colours.