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.

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

Having a phone call from Steven Spielberg was just a fantastic rite of passage. I loved it, and he was very focused, very likable, strictly business, and really sharp.

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 read nonfiction. There's very little fiction that I enjoy enough to spend my time reading. I am generally a nonfiction guy.

If you're growing up in times of peace and live in a country where there's plenty of food and good healthcare, you grow up without any relationship with death.