One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.

When you are making an independent film, money is never an issue.

Discovery is fun. I am incredibly open to everything.

I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.

There was a series called 'Game of Thrones' which was very popular here in the United States, a post-Tolkien kind of thing. It was garbage, yet very addictive garbage - because there's lots of violence, all the women take their clothes off all the time, and it's kind of fun.

We were language's magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny.

Sometimes when you finish a book, you don't know quite what you've got.