I've always been fascinated by the way that children and animals suffer stoically in a way that I don't think adults do.

In a way, a lot of my work is in the re-writing once it is cast, as I adapt to the rhythms of how the roles are played out by the actors.

Every work coming from the creator is about getting the demons out, and each character in those stories had a different personal crisis to get through.

It is really hard when the actor you pictured can't do the film.

Writing is acting in the sense that you're imagining and inhabiting another. In the book I was trying to get at the root of what true acting is.

I was 100 percent sure when I left university that I was going to be a painter.

There is a magic thing called 'tone' in a film, that the director must master and maintain.