As far as executing work is concerned, you do it all in order. You do it in contractual order. There's no overlap, it's just continuation of your ordinary work. You move from one project into another.

When I was very young, you would get the TV listings from The Globe and The Herald, and you would basically go through them, circle things, and map out your viewing week.

T.S. Eliot, who learned to swim at the same beach as I did, just threw in the towel and moved to Cheyne Walk. I'm not going to do that but I'm not scared of the open channel between me and Britain.

I think that gambling is a synthetic experience and that if you have any balls you gamble with your life. I have. So can everybody else.

When I was young I was only thinking of writing, and whatever was going on was unreal and comparatively unimportant.

My gratitude to Ridley [Scott] isn't anything new. I named one of my kids after him. But he's a very important person to me.

The thing about movies is if somebody has an idea that works, it's in, and I say that as a screenwriter as well as a director.