I feel more related to some American crime writers than I do to Stieg Larsson.

When I propose a candidate for a job I don't do it because the person in question is the best but because he is the one the client will employ. I provide them with a head that is good enough, placed on a body they want. [...] The world is full of people who pay serious money for bad pictures by good artists. And mediocre heads on tall bodies.

Just imagine walking away from something you've started. Something you really believed would be good. I don't think I could ever do that.

A rat is neither good nor evil. It does what a rat has to do.

Phantom' was for me an interesting technique of telling the story. You have one voice that it is in the present telling what is happening, and then there's one voice from the past that's also driving the story forward. And you know that the two story lines will meet eventually.

You get spoiled as a novelist because you get to be the director and the editor, and you play all the parts, but as a screenwriter, you are a bit down the ladder.

To have the chance of being loved we have to take a chance on being destroyed inside