I had no intention of providing any answers or solutions, because you'd only look a fool, but I did want to talk about what it's like to be in a state where you're wondering. And perhaps I was also receptive to the fact I was entering middle age and those thoughts come - to pretend that they don't come is just crazy.

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.

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.

The stuff that I have perhaps become known for that's based on fact, and English statesmen shouting at each other all the time, doesn't entirely represent who I am. I am not a politics wonk.

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

I'm always pre-occupied with what it is that I'm doing at the moment.