It's possible to disagree with someone about the ethics of non-violence without wanting to kick his face in.

You know very well that unless you're a scientist, it's much more important for a theory to be shapely, than for it to be true.

Since my adaptation of Ian McEwan's 'Atonement,' I get sent a lot of novels that people think will work as movies. So every now and then I make a point of sitting down and reading a couple of them.

I'm ashamed to say the first play I saw at the Royal Court was mine.

You see, I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.

Masturbation is the thinking man's television.

Often I think the novels I read won't make very good movies - I better not say which I'm looking at for potential films! - but it's nice to have an excuse to just sit and read for a whole day.