“I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.”
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Strength is one of those things you're supposed to have. You don't feel that you have it at the time you're going through it.
To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.
Before I'd written movies, I never could do big set-piece scenes with a lot of different speakers - when you've got twelve people around a dinner table talking at cross purposes. I had always been impressed by other people's ability to do that.
I'm not sure I have the physical strength to undertake a novel.
