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

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 read nonfiction. There's very little fiction that I enjoy enough to spend my time reading. I am generally a nonfiction guy.

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

As we go through life our relationship with our own mortality and our inevitable demise increases.

I don't want to direct. I have no directing ambition whatsoever. And as long as I meet filmmakers like Tom Hooper, Stephen Frears, and others who allow that collaboration, I can't see why I would ever want to direct.

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