You can only do the best you can in the minute that you're doing it.

There's no way of telling why you want to do things beforehand. Something just grabs you. It might not grab you six months later, and it might not have grabbed you six months before, but at that particular moment it grabs you, so you jump on it.

I never go back over something I've done and I never watch them again.

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.

There are so many other people involved in the making of a play or a television series or whatever... even if you're a novelist there's so much in just the marketing of a book, or even the time... the zeitgeist, the moment at which it comes out. There's a lot you can't control.

You can only do the best you can in the minute that you're doing it.

If you have distance from the events, then your story can work as an analogy or parable, rather than its literal narrative.