I think that scripts should be published, but they are published, really, because when you're a screenwriter, your stuff ends up in samizdat form on thousands and thousands of desks and shelves across the industry.

I write drama in the English language. If I wasn't working in London I'd be doing something wrong.

I sound like Warhol but only because I'm tired.

If I can give a young author any advice, whatsoever, never let anyone announce the film sale of your first novel. Film rights are sold to almost every novel, but it shouldn't be the lead story in your first engagement with the press. Then you end up getting reviews like "a novel made for the screen" and things like that.

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

You're not turning the picture over to a system or a process, you are the process, and the most important thing is to have things exactly as you want them.

I'm interested in stories about human beings. I don't care where or when they are set.