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

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.

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

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.

A couple of flop plays, a death in the family, and it could all collapse.

Everything is a version of something else.

I'm a happily married man and I think to get married you have to be optimistic.