Two things revolutionised life: Moving to the countryside, and falling in love

I have spent the last five months obsessively working on Outlaw.

And that doesn't cost any money, to have decent relationships and viable situations. What costs money is car chases and shoot-outs, so I always thought that the thing to work on was the characters.

I think one of the luxuries of being a filmmaker is that you can ask questions but not necessarily have to answer them. Certainly, if I was a politician I'd need to come up with some answers.

True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Men learn while they teach.

I think fiction is about small ambition, small failed ambition.

Misfortunes have their dignity and their redeeming power.

Hamlet has been played by 5,000 actors, no wonder he is crazy.

Sometimes, when you're writing sentence by sentence, you're not really sure what footprints you're going to fall into, or what ghosts might appear.

You can KNOW something yet FAIL to do it!

There has to be a real strong reason to do something with someone for me.

Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days.

The heart grows brutal feeding on fantasies.