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

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.

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

You're working with other people and sometimes it doesn't work out the way you want, and sometimes you didn't realise what a mistake you've made until you see it projected.

Having a phone call from Steven Spielberg was just a fantastic rite of passage. I loved it, and he was very focused, very likable, strictly business, and really sharp.

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