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

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

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

A 20-year-old is never going to give death a second thought, whereas someone in their late 50s is going to think about it... I don't know, 20 times a day.

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.