People tend to think of their lives as having a dramatic arc, because they read too much fiction.

Vaughn's vision is older, wiser and harder than Ritchie's.

Whenever I produce my best work, it's always because I've spent time being idle. Something always emerges after nothing.

The future continues to preoccupy me as a reliable source of hopes, fears and anxieties, but increasingly the present seems to have no outstanding qualities of its own, being merely a way-station through which events travel to the vast shadow lands of the past.

There is something mysteriously powerful that can happen when young, inchoate minds come into contact with older and more worldly ones in a spirit of intellectual and creative endeavour - if I believed in progress, I suppose that's what I'd call it.

Drug use and procrastination often go hand in tourniquet.

The writing life is essentially one of solitary confinement - if you can't deal with this, you needn't apply.