Call me sentimental, but there's no-one in the world that I'd like to see get dysentery more than you

Time to tidy up your life. Time to start again.

Well, it's so hard for books to take off. You give years of your life to something that probably won't happen, so when it does, it feels a little unjust.

I'm trying to be inspiring! I'm trying to lift your grubby soul for the great adventure that lies ahead of you!

A screenplay is really an instruction manual, and it can be interpreted in any number of ways. The casting, the choice of location, the costumes and make-up, the actors' reading of a line or emphasis of a word, the choice of lens and the pace of the cutting - these are all part of the translation.

Work hard at . . . something.

From an evolutionary point of view, most emotions - fear, desire, anger - serve some practical purpose, but nostalgia is a useless, futile thing because it is a longing for something that is permanently lost . . . .