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.

People test movies within an inch of their life, so that the entire audience experience is a uniform one.

I never go back over something I've done and I never watch them again.

As we go through life our relationship with our own mortality and our inevitable demise increases.

You're working with other people and sometimes it doesn't work out the way you want, and sometimes you didn't realise what a mistake you've made until you see it projected.

I wrote 'Hereafter' quickly and without mapping it out too much or being too schematic. As an exercise, I think that was incredibly important.

There are so many other people involved in the making of a play or a television series or whatever... even if you're a novelist there's so much in just the marketing of a book, or even the time... the zeitgeist, the moment at which it comes out. There's a lot you can't control.