I'm a homebody, as many writers are, and need to be by myself, and I like to be by the Atlantic Ocean.

I'm not very precious at all, which I think people find surprising.

Certainly some guy eating cardboard in Cincinnati has lost any ordinary impetus to review your novel decently if he's just read you just got six figures out of Warner Bros - which incidentally was not true.

I'd been working so hard making the film that I hadn't even emotionally processed the fact that I was a director.

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'm a guy whose first motion picture experience was seeing Ridley Scott glide past on a camera on a hundred and fifty million dollar film, and prep two movies, and there is no way to overstate that when you've worked with Ridley, it's like having been a quarterdeck lieutenant to Lord Nelson.

For some reason, I seem to work well with actors. I love working with them.