I feel comfortable with women. I have two sisters, so I grew up in a female-dominated environment.

Well, I stopped drinking. That was actually a big deal. I didn't go through any harrowing rock-bottom experience. I just made a decision to stop drinking.

It really shocks me when I encounter people who think kindness doesn't matter. Because I think it's pretty much the only thing that matters.

I sometimes don't know what I'm writing when I start writing it, on some level.

We're like a gardener with a hose and our attention is water - we can water flowers or we can water weeds.

In writing scripts now, having made a film, I'm much more conscious of what it means to shoot and edit a movie, and that affects the writing.

Time off from the news is always something I welcome.