Once you realise that heroes die, everything becomes that much more terrifying.
I was a huge fantasy geek growing up. I was the dungeon master in my D&D game.
I've always envied people who sleep easily. Their brains must be cleaner, the floorboards of the skull well swept, all the little monsters closed up in a steamer trunk at the foot of the bed.
I've never flown a kite.
the lonliest sound in the world is other people making love.
And I didn't grow up wanting to be a director. I grew up wanting to be a writer, so for me, that was always the goal - to be a novelist, not a screenwriter. And I think, again, if I didn't have the novels, maybe I'd be much more frustrated by not having directed yet.