I'm trying to get under people's skin in a way. I don't like films that go in one ear and out the other.

I love films where you go into the cinema and loosen the edges of yourself and you hopefully enter into the world of the film. You're watching something unfold before you. I prefer the idea of wonder or intense wonder over shock or something.

The concentration of the elite athlete is akin perhaps to the concentration of the writer.

I, myself, don't like to see a film on Friday night and then forget it by the next day.

To me the question of inspiration is an exercise in hindsight. The truth is inspiration is mysterious at the time. I don't think it's ever a rational process.

I think it's restrictive to typecast myself as a novelist because I enjoy other forms of expression. I love literature and I love cinema.

I always find it extremely hard to remember the act of beginning. I almost deliberately forget it.