The only answer to "Are you Beatles or Stones?" is, "I'm both."

I cut London Boulevard pretty aggressively, but I liked the transitions and the elliptical feel that I got. It's not an exceptionally easy film to follow. You have to know that the paparazzo looks like Mark David Chapman. He hasn't got an expositional sign on him.

In all honesty a gangster picture was the easiest kind of film for me to get made.

I was always entirely about work, about getting where I am now. If I'm not working I'm thinking about it, though at some point I learned not to talk about it very much.

I never viewed screen drama as a vulgar form, or a lesser one, and I've never written it left-handed.

I have a lot of stuff that I never published because I always had a sense that novels were not finally going to be the way I made my living, because the form was dying commercially.

I hate doing anything in offices. I either want to be out in the world or in my own environment - and it should be your own environment that you work in.