As long as there's one person to believe it, there's no story that can't be true.

After something crystallizes, I can write ferociously and write novels in six months, which in the past would have taken me two years.

What used to keep me up at night was the fact that I didn't know how I was going to pay the rent. Now that I can pay the rent, I'm worrying about people I care about, you know, the people I love. The little aches and pains of my children that I, my family. That's always first.

Often it's true that films just go right through us. You see the film, you might be entertained, and if it's not a great film, it loses its power very quickly. I think even simply acceptable books stay with us a lot longer.

Something happens, Blue thinks, and then it goes on happening forever. It can never be changed, can never be otherwise.

The fiction is not autobiographical. Maybe to some extent it is, of course.

I don't think that you can be prescriptive about anything, I mean, life is too complicated. Maybe there are novels where the author has not in the least thought about it in terms of film, which can be turned into good films.