Newton's Third Law of Conversation, if it existed, would hold that every statement implies an equal and opposite statement. To say that I'd turned the offer down raised the possibility that I might not have done.

Screenwriting is the most prized of all the cinematic arts. Actually, it isn't, but it should be.

To be a head boy, you have to be very clever, you have to be a scholar, and I was never a scholar in any shape or form.

People are more open about seeking help these days. They recognise the fact that the alternative to having a shrink is that you bore your friends stupid. So I figured that I might as well give someone 100 bucks an hour to hear my woes. At least someone can make a living out of listening to my tedious problems.

Pain is an event. It happens to you, and you deal with it in whatever way you can.

I get anxious about a lot of things, that's the trouble. I get anxious about everything. I just can't stop thinking about things all the time. And here's the really destructive part - it's always retrospective. I waste time thinking of what I should have said or done.

I rowed for Cambridge. I was pretty good at that.