Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors.

The images [of The Kite Runner grafic] were created in Fabio Celoni's mind. I chose to let him take the lead. Fabio and I did exchange an e-mail or two, but it was my intention to step out of the way and let his artistic instincts take over.

I found a sad little fairy Beneath the shade of a paper tree. I know a sad little fairy Who was blown away by the wind one night.

The story of what has happened to women in Afghanistan, however, is a very important one, and fertile ground for fiction.

Air grew heavy, damp, almost solid. I was breathing bricks.

It's hard when you make a film from a book that so many people love, because there's no way to get the entire story into a two-hour movie. But I was pleased with the reaction [for Kite Runner].

cruelty and benevolence are but shades of the same colour.