Oh you know me. I have no emotions. I'm a robot. Or a nun. A robot nun.

At university, I used to write silly little sketches and monologues, but never fiction.

The future rose up ahead of her, a succession of empty days, each more daunting and unknowable than the one before her.

My 20s was a sea of worry. I worried about benefit forms, about being thrown out of my flat. I never went on holiday because I thought: 'What if an audition comes up?' I was a nervous wreck.

Just kidding' was exactly what people wrote when they meant every word.

If she does have a failing, and it's obviously only a tiny one, it's that she doesn't seem particularly curious about other people, or me, anyway.

Screenwriting is always about what people say or do, whereas good writing is about a thought process or an abstract image or an internal monologue, none of which works on screen.