It's hard not to get depressed when you pay attention to the world and how strangely and corrupt the people in it sometimes behave.

I've never had a problem with people paying attention to what you're doing and say they find that they liked it.

I pursue the things I do because I'm interested in them.

I don't have a BlackBerry or whatever you call it. And there is something to be said for being isolated and out of phone range, because you can fall into a habit to such a degree that you don't even realise that you've lost something: silence.

Captain Fantastic touches on that [division]. You meet this family that lives off the grid in the woods and you go, "Oh, it's some kind of liberal utopian fantasy. The enemy is gonna be all these conservative types that they'll probably run into, and that's going to be the story."

I don't like people who get into fights about football - or anything else.

Perceval Press a publishing house I founded in 2002 and it's still going strong. Strong for us means not so many books per year, but each one we very carefully design and print.