It's Hard to Stay Mad When There's So Much Beauty in the World

Have we become so celebrity-obsessed that there is no longer a difference between a character and an actor? I hope not.

If you haven't turned rebel by twenty you've got no heart; if you haven't turned establishment by thirty you've got no brains!

I remember meeting the likes of Johnny Carson and Jimmy Stewart for the first time and being completely starstruck.

I actually have a number of lovely watches from the International Watch Company.

While data can only tell you what has happened in the past, it can in some ways give you a sense of what might be of interest to an audience in the future.

The characters created cannot just be a mouthpiece for the writer. When you look at a piece of writing, and it's genuine and it doesn't feel like every character is just a mouthpiece for the writer, but that they've been created in such a way that they're expressing an idea that a writer wants to get across, that's when a story succeeds.