Seeing does not always believe.

If you need drugs to be a good writer, you are not a good writer.

I'm sufficiently independent to know that I can live well and comfortably all the rest of my life whether I'm rejected or not.

Some people possess talent, others are possessed by it. When that happens, a talent becomes a curse.

The writer's no different. When he's rejected, that paper is rejected, in a sense, a sizeable fragment of the writer is rejected as well. It's a piece of himself that's being turned down.

You know, writer can write about the Foreign Legion without ever having been in the Foreign Legion, but that doesn't necessarily mean that what he's written doesn't necessarily reflect the nature of him as an individual - or her. Using the male gender because it's me speaking. I don't mean to put down the female.

I miss the comraderie of live television - the fact that you were on the set, you worked closely with the director and the cast, that I miss. But, no, I'm happy, I'm happy doing film.