As we go through life our relationship with our own mortality and our inevitable demise increases.

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

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

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

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.

Firms are a bit concerned about things like oil prices and US growth but actually the change (in firms expectations) is quite small so I think broadly theyre looking for more of the same.

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