Music was a very vibrant ingredient in my life, and I originally saw my early plays as being a format for music.

I always listen to music, my passion and vice is music, I will be denied access to heaven because of the number of CDs I own, and I have gluttony for all types and colours of music.

Of course, like all film-makers I've been mesmerised by cinema since I was a child.

I don't hold with the notion that only bad books make good movies.

I never feel more myself than when I'm writing; I never enjoy any day more than a good writing day.

I feel most at home in America, because everybody there is from another country.