When you experience bereavement at a youngish age, you suddenly realise that life is unjust and unfair, that bad things will happen, and you have to take that on board.

We talked filth for a pleasant half hour.

Film is a medium of clear lines and broad strikes - which can be fantastic - but compared to the subtleties and nuances of a novel, it doesn't even get close.

We keep a journal to entrap that collection of selves that forms us, the individual human being.

In some ways, you could argue, television is doing far more interesting work than the movies. It's more fulfilling.

In the broad spectrum of the arts, two worlds rarely overlap - the literary world and the world of rock music.

She's half mad and three parts drunk.