Of Course Witnessing Poverty Was The First

The Key Relationship For Writers In Film Is Producers, Because Those Are The First Two People Involved And The Ones Who Work On It Intensely In A Private Way Without The Big Machinery Of Film.

I Wrote A Whole Novel Before The Beach. Unpublishable. Junk. But, For Some Reason I Stuck At Novels And Wrote A Second. Still Not Sure Why I Didn't Give Up. Stubborn, Maybe.

By The Time The Plane Was Airborne I'd Forgotten England Even Existed.

I Used To Think About Video Games, "this Is Clearly An Amazing, New Narrative Medium, And It's Going To Be Mind-blowing When People Get To Grips With What's Possible Within This Medium." It Took Us A Century To Get Really Good At Film. Video Games Are At A Much Earlier Stage.

The Success That Comes From My Books Is Not Something I Feel Very Comfortable With. Past A Certain Point You Have To Accept The Idea That The Success Is A Lot To Do With The Timing And Luck And That Divorces You From It Massively. There Are Aspects Of It That I Haven't Got Used To At All. But I've Enjoyed Some Parts Of It Massively. It Relates To The Same Reason I Did A Lot Of Backpacking — Partly For The Experience — It's Something To Tell My Grandkids. It's A Weird Chain Of Events To Have In Your Life.