When you read a history or biography you are entitled to imagine that it is as accurate as the authors can make it. That research has gone into it and we say "This is a history of the civil war, this is a biography of Lincoln" whatever. But you don't make any such supposition when you say "This is a historical novel."

What I want any genre to do, what I want any work of art to do, is to illuminate the human condition.

There are moments in one's life where you look back and you say, 'Well, I wish I had done this differently.

I'm not really interested in the exploding car or endless sort of dystopian fantasies and superheroes. None of that... that doesn't interest me very much.

I'm mainly interested in people trying to figure s#!t out.

A screenplay is not a finished product; a novel is. A screenplay is a blueprint for something - for a building that will most likely never be built.

Actors will change their face, will change their hair, will change their voice, will disappear into the role. A movie star doesn't disappear.