I'm always pre-occupied with what it is that I'm doing at the moment.

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

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

The stuff that I have perhaps become known for that's based on fact, and English statesmen shouting at each other all the time, doesn't entirely represent who I am. I am not a politics wonk.

Generally, I read nonfiction. Theres very little fiction that I enjoy enough to spend my time reading. I am generally a nonfiction guy.

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.

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.