I always loved movies and the cinema; we always used to go to see films as a family.

I always like to arrive at the airport early to enjoy breakfast and lounge about so that when I get on the plane all my travel fever has disappeared.

The business of life is learning that you can't lay down the terms.

Every writer has to make an emotional journey from artist sitting in attic to being part of a business. The writer of a film is like Tinkerbell. You are only there because people believe in you. The moment they dont, because youre a pain the arse, youve lost.

Life is a game in which the player must appear ridiculous.

I don't think I'm an unkind person, I don't think my books are unkind, and I don't think my readers are unkind.

I never know which is worse: the sorrow when you hit the bird or the shame when you miss it.