The real beauty in my professional experience has been friendships and collaborations with filmmakers.

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.

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

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.

You don't really work together with Clint Eastwood. I mean, he takes the script and he shoots it - and he shoots it very faithfully.

The thing that I'm most in love with is the thing that I'm writing at the moment.

I am not a politics wonk. I like the idea of my writing reflecting more about who I am or other people.