Every book for me is an exorcism in some way or another, working through my feelings at the time.

I think we've all lost some kind of feeling.

Hope E.L .James doesn't think I'm being a prankster. I really want to adapt her novels for the screen. Christian Grey is a writer's dream.

I tried to make meat loaf out of the girl but it becomes too frustrating a task and instead I spend the afternoon smearing her meat all over the walls, chewing on strips of skin I ripped from her body

I have no problems or issues with screenwriting in general.

I do not feel I have a legacy to protect.

What keeps me interested--and it always does--is how can she be a bad actress on film but a good one in reality?