"I won't touch on risky, because that's subjective. People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don't necessarily merit fear."

"The idea of recognising your strengths and using them in as versatile a way as you can is cool to me."

"Whenever I think about movies, I always look at that art process as having the best of a lot of worlds. Because if you watch a great film, you have a musical element to it, not just on the scoring, but in the way that the shots are edited - that has music and rhythm and time."

"I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go to form of communication."

"A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality."

"I read 'The Hobbit' while at school. It was OK; can't really remember too much from there, other than the fact I was 10! I never read it again until the script for the film, but it has to be an amazing story when you know Sir Peter Jackson has made three films out of it."

"I like writing about friends."

"Any terrorism is an attack on libertarian values."