If you're offended, it's your problem.

It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.

When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away.

The way you write a screenplay is that you close your eyes and run the movie in your head and then you write it down.

One of the things I've learnt is not to depend on there being a woman in your life to make it work. I love my work, I love my children, I've got wonderful friends, you know, I have a nice life.

If you're on a freeway and want to know if you're being followed, what you do is enormously vary your speed. You accelerate to 100 and slow down to 30 and then accelerate again. In a city, you make a lot of turns against the stream of traffic. You go around a roundabout twice.