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

I had no intention of providing any answers or solutions, because you'd only look a fool, but I did want to talk about what it's like to be in a state where you're wondering. And perhaps I was also receptive to the fact I was entering middle age and those thoughts come - to pretend that they don't come is just crazy.

Sometimes you are lucky enough to get offered things and there is no rhyme or reason.

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.

People test movies within an inch of their life, so that the entire audience experience is a uniform one.

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

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