I don't think film is the writer's medium, and so I was interested to see what a director would do with it.

This toast feels raw. Is it safe to eat raw toast?

The idea that the curtain rises on what is often more or less a happy scene, and it will fall just a few hours later, and everyone will be dead or have gone mad... I find that kind of narrative very appealing.

It is one of life's bitterest truths that bedtime so often arrives just when things are really getting interesting.

I'm not very good at the accordion. If I played guitar, I wouldn't be on anyone's album. But because I play the accordion and no one else does, I end up doing strange things.

Everything else has vanished, so you take them now. Maybe if you're the one keeping them, I'll be the one feeling better.

Just about everybody has written a first novel that they throw away before writing their actual first novel.