Children are far more interesting to work with than grownups. They're incredibly honest. They'll tell you exactly what they think.

In Maine, there is a deeply ingrained sense that you can always get a little more use out of something.

My three-year ride by horse from Mongolia to Hungary was the most difficult, most revealing, and interesting of any of my travels. Travelling by horse, you're far more engaged and dependent on the land and other people than by any other means.

I gave him the manuscript and let him do what he would with it,

In some ways, you could argue, television is doing far more interesting work than the movies. It's more fulfilling.

I think one can be more honest in fiction than in a memoir.