But try as I might, I never got to eat any of her pastries, and do you know, she never even offered me one.

Any story you write about war, or film you make about war, is bound to be political whether you like it or not.

When I write I try as far as possible to forget I'm writing it at all. I tell it down onto the page, as if I'm telling it to one person only, my best friend.

Unless you can be in a place yourself and go through the subject of your story yourself, the next best thing is not to read a book about it, or see a movie about it, it's to talk to the people who've been there.

Wars become history all too soon and are forgotten all too soon as well, before the lessons can be learned.

Any problem can be solved between people if only they can trust each other

Like most writers, I sit in a room and scribble a story and you don't have a connection with the people who take your story, whether it be to the stage or to the screen.