My job is to have empathy and curiosity for things that I've never done. Also, I'm a person whom people talk to.

If I could have married my wife and been a sports writer for the past 30 years, I wouldn't be sitting here - but I don't think I'd be sitting someplace where I was sorry to be sitting.

It's interesting to leave a place, interesting even to think about it. Leaving reminds us of what we can part with and what we can't, then offers us something new to look forward to, to dream about.

That said, being dyslexic, I wasn't a great reader when I was kid.

We are seeing people of faith being attacked, discriminated against, and losing their jobs because they are speaking out on the marriage issue.

I feel I've done everything late in life. Got married late, and I didn't do my first movie until I was 31. But in this crazy business, you never know what's going to happen. Maybe after 20 years of making movies I'll become an overnight sensation.

I write about messy relationships - between friends, rivals, married couples, siblings. I'm not really interested in boy/girl romances.

Within the sphere of steampunk, there seems to be a rapidly growing subsphere of gadgetless 'neo-Victorian' novels, most of which attempt to recapture the romance of the era without all the sociopolitical ugliness.