I think I have a very detailed sense of observation. I am interested in the details of people's lives and what information these details give.

It's the gloomy things that need our help, if everything in the garden is sunny, why meddle?

Lawyers are always confident before the verdict. It's only after that they share their doubts.

My childhood was a happy one, spent in a tall house in South Kensington and later in East Sussex, but my early and mid teens were less successful.

I think it's always a challenge to adapt something from one medium to another - a novel into a film or a play into a movie or whatever.

You never know people, do you? You can work with 'em for twenty years; you don't know 'em at all.

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.