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

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

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

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.

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

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

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