Its the details and the human element that makes Recount entertaining. Even though we know how the election ends, it plays like a thriller. Its also funny.

I think you need the failures to get the success. You learn more from that.

Audiences grew to like this duality of feeling, where youre both championing a character and youre revolted by them.

[What's my favourite book?] It changes all the time.

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.

I have never played a game in my life.

If you're lucky enough to have done well, then it's your responsibility to send the elevator back down.