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I never sat down and said, 'I'm going to write historical fiction with strong romantic elements.' It was just the way the stories went.

'Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere' took me six years to write.

'Edward Scissorhands' was tough to let go of because I found real safety in allowing myself to be that open, that honest. To explore purity. It was a hard one to walk away from.

I was in love with the idea of love, so I created elaborate fictions for my relationships - fictions that allowed me to believe that what any given paramour and I shared looked a lot like love.

I didn't go out of my way to get into this movie stuff. I think of myself as a writer.

It's funny: the reason I did 'Beautiful Creatures' was the same reason I did everything else - even though it was a genre film and existed at a more studio level, the script and the characters were so well written.

I feel that the thing that probably aided me the most in that scene with the dog was the utilization and using an actual recreation, affective memory, if you want to call it, of pain.

I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.

The more melancholy side of my literary personality is much in tune with BS Johnson's.