I find the world more absurd now than I did when I was a kid.

You have to just go with your imagination, where your instinct takes you.

I find the world more absurd now than I did when I was a kid.

There are some people who walk into a room and they oxygenate it, by their very being there's fresh air. Then there are those who come in with the smell of death and they suck the life out.

If I'm at home on my own and the writing isn't going well, I clean my house. And there have been times in the past few years when my house has looked really clean.

A script is utterly useless in and of itself; it's only of any worth the minute your actors, your designers, your directors come into being.

The Vatican has tried to condemn 'The Magdalene Sisters' as a pack of lies and that I've made it all up - I wish I was that good a dramatist - and in terms of public relations, that was the daftest thing they ever did.