Normally, Small Talk Is Enough For Me

If You Look At The Whole Life Of The Planet, We - You Know, Man - Has Only Been Around For A Few Blinks Of An Eye. So If The Infection Wipes Us All Out, That Is A Return To Normality.

Waking Was The Most Reliable Part Of A Dream, As Built Into Dreams As Death Is To Life. You Dream, You Wake: You Live, You Die.

I Can Kid People, Including Myself, Into Believing That Something On The Page Will Work. But When You Film It, You Just Think, "oh ...".

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.

I've Never Been To Comic-con, But I'm Certainly Aware From This Side Of The Atlantic That It's A Very Important Part Of Film Marketing Now, Even When The Films Are Not Directly Linked To A Comic.