I have teken refuge in the doctrine that advises one not to seek tranquility in certainty but in permanently suspended judgement.

There are things in life we don't understand, and when we meet them, all we can do is let them alone.

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

I tend to admire dead people more than the living. All too often, human reality diminishes the glowing reputation.

The only times we are consciously aware of the authorship of a photograph, I would argue, are when we contemplate the photographs we ourselves have taken (or those of friends and family) or when we go deliberately to the photographers monograph or exhibition. The signed image - the appropriated, the owned image - is by far the rarest in this pullulating world of pictures.

With film, you have very limited tools to convey subjectivity - voiceover, the camera's point of view, good acting - but even the very best actor in the world is crude by comparison with what you can do in a written paragraph.

There's a sense in all my novels that nothing is certain.