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I wrote large chunks of 'The Impostor' and 'The Good Doctor' on a beach in Goa.

Even The Impostors, as silly as it is, is a very intimate film, in a way.

Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.

I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside society, moving between delinquency and conformity.

I didn't write to be famous; I wrote to keep a record.

I can't remove the autobiographical slant from the things I write. You always bring yourself into what you're writing.

I've yet to write a stand-up show that isn't autobiographical.

I know you're supposed to hide your influences, but I suppose I see writing as riffing, really, about whatever you have been reading or thinking about that day or that week.

Major writing is to say what has been seen, so that it need never be said again.

You've got to write for your audience.