It might be more difficult because you haven't got a book or a prop, but for the most part I like to write unpaid... initially and my own stories.

The minute you become a leader of a country, you go into a very small club. You join that sort of pantheon of other world leaders.

If you have distance from the events, then your story can work as an analogy or parable, rather than its literal narrative.

To what degree are historians chroniclers of the truth and to what degree are they just novelists, frankly?

Firms are a bit concerned about things like oil prices and US growth but actually the change (in firms expectations) is quite small so I think broadly theyre looking for more of the same.

I wrote 'Hereafter' quickly and without mapping it out too much or being too schematic. As an exercise, I think that was incredibly important.

Generally, I read nonfiction. Theres very little fiction that I enjoy enough to spend my time reading. I am generally a nonfiction guy.

Movies feel like work, and reading fiction feels like work, whereas reading nonfiction feels like pleasure.

I just try and do something good. But as a writer, you're slightly out of control.

I am not a politics wonk. I like the idea of my writing reflecting more about who I am or other people.

The real beauty in my professional experience has been friendships and collaborations with filmmakers.

DEATH is big business.Thank god for capitalism.

Reshuffllng of thoughts - facilitates a refreshed perspective to a mental deadlock!

Free your mind, become who you are.. the mind is the biggest drug.. and everyone is addicted.

We don't wear sequins because we think we're great. We wear them because we think sequins are great.

I don’t think television will ever be perfected until the viewer can press a button and cause whoever is on the screen’s head to explode.

I have always been a very passionate person. Some people are born with this fire burning inside to "do," or create, with an insatiable hunger for knowledge and experience, and I am no exception.

English, no longer an English language, now grows from many roots.

I think people direct good films when they feel personal to them, not because it's a famous book or something. It has to something move over that and somehow become personal to the director.

The song 'Innocent' is a song that I wrote about something that really, really emotionally impacted me.

I talked about adopting a baby when I was 20 years old, before it became 'hip.'