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.

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

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

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

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 don't want to direct. I have no directing ambition whatsoever. And as long as I meet filmmakers like Tom Hooper, Stephen Frears, and others who allow that collaboration, I can't see why I would ever want to direct.

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