Well, it was interesting because when I was going to do it the first time in my head was Leonardo DiCaprio [for Chris] and Marlon Brando was going to play the character that Hal Holbrook eventually played. But then when it wasn't to be and there was no promise that it ever would be I think some part of me didn't want to attach specifics to it anymore - actors or anything else - because I wanted to see it made that much more badly.

I've been a road-rat since I got my driver's licence at 16, so I've probably gone across America 20 times.

It's pretty much rock-'n'-roll. I sit down and start feeling stuff and writing.

When everything gets answered, it's fake.

There is no re-inventing the wheel.

Reputations are maintained by the outside world, and they're created by it, too, by and large. And they serve as a hell of a device for privacy, because the more people look for something that's not there, the less chance they have of violating who you are. It's like going out there with a mask on, without having to exercise your upper body to put it on.

I get a little scared of words like maturity.