I do believe we're all adaptable, and you're probably more adaptable than you realize.

I've never forgotten what it's like to be in your early twenties, which is not a particularly easy time. You've left your family, you've left the strictures of high school, and you're trying to break free and form yourself but you have to support yourself as well. We don't really give enough credence to that time of life and to its troubles.

I think striking the right tone for your story is, if you like, the alchemical work of writing.

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

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.

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

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.