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.

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.

I give everything my best shot and sometimes it doesn't work out and other times it works out much better than you thought.

The minute you become a leader of a country, you go into a very small club. You join that sort of pantheon of other world leaders.

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

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.