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

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

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.

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.

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

People test movies within an inch of their life, so that the entire audience experience is a uniform one.

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.