Writing is probably one-fifth coming up with the stuff, and four-fifths self-editing again and again and again.

I've become a less brave traveller since I became a dad, but in the past I was more foolhardy than brave.

I'm not a great deep political thinker.

I don't have problems starting writing. I have problems stopping. I'm one of the last dads to arrive at school to collect the kids, because I want to get this paragraph just right.

Lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and... stop thinking! Just ask yourself whether the work has enabled you to 'walk about' into a hitherto unknown world. If the answer is yes, what more do you want?

You can read a character that feels amazing, but if the world around it and all the writing around it - even the way the stage descriptions are written - don't feel just right, then you know there's no point in doing the project. No character is ever bigger than the whole film.

My job is to make sure there's something about each dress that ignites the bride's imagination.

I think we shouldn't buckle up our creativity. You've got to experiment!