It might be more difficult because you haven't got a book or a prop, but for the most part I like to write unpaid... initially and my own stories.

Movies feel like work, and reading fiction feels like work, whereas reading nonfiction feels like pleasure.

We give each other a wide berth even if we have the flu, let alone... So, I think that's part of the stigma that people who have diseases suffer. It's almost infectious... if somebody is closer to death, they're almost a bad omen and I think that's terrible.

A 20-year-old is never going to give death a second thought, whereas someone in their late 50s is going to think about it... I don't know, 20 times a day.

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.

Sometimes you are lucky enough to get offered things and there is no rhyme or reason.

I can't relax when I'm watching a biographical drama, because it's so close to what it is that I do that I just long for more fiction - so that I can switch off.