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.

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

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.

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

I write books I'd enjoy reading, I'm the reader standing behind my shoulder.

I'm a big-city boy. What I like is big cities. It's not just what I like. It's what I write about.