Mortified at the speed with which intimacy evaporates.

I usually write on a computer - unless I get stuck, at which point I switch to write by hand. I think that's common among writers if they get cornered on something.

Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.

Better by far to be good and courageous and bold and to make difference. Not change the world exactly, but the bit around you

If there's anything I'm keen to get better at in my writing, then it's the writing of prose as opposed to the writing of dialogue.

We're not ourselves, are we? I'm certainly not myself, not anymore. And you're not either. You don't seem yourself. Not as I remember you.

When you're reading a book, you're always looking for the natural place to stop. With a movie, you can't really have that sense of it coming momentarily to a halt; there's pressure to keep the momentum up.