You make a film you feel is as real as possible and hope people react as though it were real.

And it's best if you know a good thing is going to happen, like an eclipse or getting a microscope for Christmas. And it's bad if you know a bad thing is going to happen, like having a filling or going to France. But I think it is worst if you don't know whether it is a good thing or a bad thing which is going to happen.

Every life is narrow. Our only escape is not to run away, but to learn to love the people we are and the world in which we find ourselves.

I've come to realize that most good ideas are precisely the ones you can't describe.

..because when we look up into the sky at night there will be no darkness, just the blazing light of billions and billions of stars, all falling.

Usually people look at you when they're talking to you. I know that they're working out what I'm thinking, but I can't tell what they're thinking. It is like being in a room with a one-way mirror in a spy film.

I think the U.K. is too small to write about from within it and still make it seem foreign and exotic and interesting.