Although filmmaking is collaborative and involves trust, ultimately it is the director who holds the whole picture together in their head.

The great thing about being a writer is that you have a long, perhaps frighteningly long time in which to do your work.

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.

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

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.

Although filmmaking is collaborative and involves trust, ultimately it is the director who holds the whole picture together in their head.

The point is the 'me' that you see before you is not the 'me' in my private little space, shape-shifting into the writing role, nor is it the 'me' that works with the actors. Here, at the end of the film doing interviews, I feel like I'm in disguise.