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.

We used to call it her Cinderella complex, because often when she had agreed to go out in the evening she would be seized by panic and announce that she had nothing to wear.

There may be certain genres that men dominate, but fiction not so much. The question of prizes is tricky because there are so many prizes.

I'm finding that success is way more time-consuming than failure ever was.

Sometimes, I think there's a lack of ambition in me. But then sometimes, I think, no, you can, like William Blake said, you know, see heaven in a grain of sand. If you look really, really closely at a situation, you can find almost endless interest in it.

I really like to keep my palette small but to be very intense, very myopic.

Vitamins are medicine for not getting sick and going back to Heaven yet.