When writing screenplays, it's a matter of remembering to leave off the page anything and everything that doesn't appear on the screen.

The big ideas always come in flashes. I don't really craft stories that much. I genuinely don't know where these people come from and I've often wondered if writing is just a socially acceptable form of madness.

Being a twin, and being my sister's twin, is such a defining part of my life that I wouldn't know how to be who I am, including a writer, without that being somehow at the centre.

When writing screenplays, it's a matter of remembering to leave off the page anything and everything that doesn't appear on the screen.

The writer presents himself to the blank page not with an open passport but an open heart.

The thing that comes most frequently to me on yoga retreats is excruciating pain in my hips.

I live in Rome and five minutes from my flat is a church where you can walk in and see this beautiful Caravaggio. Just the way this man uses dark paint: dark to create dark to create dark, the layering of the darkness in his work. I just race home: I want to create!