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You know, I feel like my job is to write a book. Then filmmakers come and they make a movie. And they're two really different art forms.

As an author, it's a strange process to watch your novel turned into a movie. It's tremendously exciting but somewhat voyeuristic; after all, novelists are rarely involved in the process.

Being in quite a few movies... there's always things that are changing about a film.

I never see a novel as a film while I'm writing it. Mostly because novels and films are so different, and I'm such an internal novelist.

Every time I make a film, I feel it gives me the chance to learn something new.

People have a different idea of how movies are made than they really are.

I don't actually sit down and write, but I just have a lot of different ideas about films and making movies.

A book is one kind of an art form and a film is a different art form. I think as a writer you just have to say, well the book is one thing, and the film is a completely different one.

You know, I don't really do that much looking inside me when I'm working on a project. Whatever I am becomes what that film is. But I change; you change.

Some writers get snooty about what happens when their books are adapted to film, but I don't feel that way.