There's no way of telling why you want to do things beforehand. Something just grabs you. It might not grab you six months later, and it might not have grabbed you six months before, but at that particular moment it grabs you, so you jump on it.

When you make a choice as a writer about what it is you want to write, and what it is you're going to spend six months thinking about, you have to fall in love.

I am not a politics wonk. I like the idea of my writing reflecting more about who I am or other people.

It's really a lovely feeling to write knowing that failure is taken off the table because if it's bad you just never show it to anyone.

I just try and do something good. But as a writer, you're slightly out of control.

You don't really work together with Clint Eastwood. I mean, he takes the script and he shoots it - and he shoots it very faithfully.

The thing that I'm most in love with is the thing that I'm writing at the moment.