If you have written something that the film people want, like a book, it does give you a way in.

With a time-based medium like theater or film, you can't have the audience getting restless in their seats. They're stuck there on their bums; you have to pay enormous attention to pace and you can't lose your way.

If you have written something that the film people want, like a book, it does give you a way in.

Writers should be applauded for their ability to make things up.

Some writers can produce marvelous plots without planning it out, but I can't. In particular I need to know the structure of a novel: what's going to happen in each chapter and each scene.

Every parent has those moments where they look at their child and think, 'There's a demon in those eyes and no one can see it but me!

When I was four I thought everything in TV was just TV, then I was five and Ma unlied about lots of it being pictures of real and Outside being totally real. Now I’m in Outside but it turns out lots of it isn’t real at all.