When you make a choice as a writer about what it is you want to write, and what it is you're going to spend six months thinking about, you have to fall in love.

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

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

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

You can only do the best you can in the minute that you're doing it.

I can't relax when I'm watching a biographical drama, because it's so close to what it is that I do that I just long for more fiction - so that I can switch off.