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.

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

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.

I can't relax when I'm watching a biographical drama, because it's so close to what it is that I do that I just long for more fiction - so that I can switch off.

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.

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.

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