I like them all - I don't always approve. I see myself as a sort of benevolent uncle to these characters, and I can see why they do what they do; sometimes they make some mistakes, but at heart I think they're decent.

I mean when the play was on in New York I was starting to get film offers coming through, and since the film's come out I get offered more than I used to, but it happens incrementally.

It's one of the reasons I don't do drugs. One sniff and I'd go all the way.

I like the varying rhythm of being a writer that you have a period of being in complete isolation where it's just you and the book and your screenplay and no-one can read it.

What's so great about the truth? Try lying for a change, it's the currency of the world.

I think you owe me something for deceiving me so exquisitely.

I think a tragedy is something where the natural order of things is completely interrupted and doesn't right itself.