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.

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.

To what degree are historians chroniclers of the truth and to what degree are they just novelists, frankly?

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

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.

The real beauty in my professional experience has been friendships and collaborations with filmmakers.

If you're growing up in times of peace and live in a country where there's plenty of food and good healthcare, you grow up without any relationship with death.