Keep your central character moving, discovering, learning.

They say crying makes the heart lighter

I'm very lucky. I actually like screenwriting. I rarely feel a sense of doom going to my desk.

One doesn’t question a miracle.

India is desperately romantic, utterly unashamed of its sentimentality, its generosity, its fierce pride and massive heart.

For me, as a writer who comes from quite a naturalistic tradition, British screenwriting is quite delicate, quite small, and rarified in a way.

When you make a movie, a dramatization based on the real experience of a living subject, you cant airbrush that away into to a perfect movie arc.

Real life is messy, and drama is a shaped version of real life.

There isnt a more important issue in the world than global warming. Even the Cold War and the Bay of Pigs crisis were a notional threat.

I guess my approach to adapting books is to treat them with a deep respect on one level and at another level part them to one side and go, 'I'm doing something completely different here.'

Angels do not enter a house where there is a dog.

If I had to limit my advice on healthier living to just one tip, it would be simply to learn how to breathe correctly.

We ought to be very cautious and circumspect in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely perilous to liberty.

Paper is like Joyce Carol Oates: white.

We're each our own person, we live our own lives, make our own mistakes, learn from them and move forward.

There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.

I’m not saying that everyone needs to be celibate, but you don’t need a romance to complete a story about a woman

I have a lot of growing up to do, or a lot of growing down. I think that's probably more appropriate.

I thought I was the last American weirdo then I met Chris Chandler.

Love is the distance between reality and pain.