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It Slightly Depends On Your Perspective, Sort Of How You Look At These Things, But When I Sit Down To Write A Script, I'm Not Planning To Write A Script; I'm Planning To Make A Film, And So I Only See The Script As Being Just A Step There.

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

The Truth Is, I Hadn't Grown Up Really Wanting To Be A Writer. The Whole Thing Was A Weird Aberration In Some Ways, And I Didn't Feel Personally Connected To The Level Of Success I Had With It - The Success Of Sorts, I Guess.

When You Develop An Infatuation For Someone You Always Find A Reason To Believe That This Is Exactly The Person For You. It Doesn’t Need To Be A Good Reason. Taking Photographs Of The Night Sky, For Example. Now, In The Long Run, That’s Just The Kind Of Dumb, Irritating Habit That Would Cause You To Split Up. But In The Haze Of Infatuation, It’s Just What You’ve Been Searching For All These Years.

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.