The First I Heard Of The Beach

I Can Kid People, Including Myself, Into Believing That Something On The Page Will Work. But When You Film It, You Just Think, "oh ...".

Every Dream That Anyone Ever Has Is Theirs Alone And They Never Manage To Share It. And They Never Manage To Remember It Either. Not Truly Or Accurately. Not As It Was. Our Memories And Our Vocabularies Aren't Up To The Job.

Tourists Went On Holidays While Travellers Did Something Else. They Travelled.

Uh... What Can I Say? Made Money. Given A Launch Pad For A Working Life. Set A Precedent I Had No Interest In Following. Created Expectations That I Was Not Cut-out To Match. Disappointed Virtually All Of My Readers Subsequently. But I Like What I've Done, And I Stand By It All.

I Never Feel A Huge Need For Backstory In My Novels Or Films. Quick Sketches Are Often Enough. When You Encounter People In Life - Like A Chance Encounter At A Bar Or Wherever You Happen To Be - You Make These Incredibly Quick, Quite Intricate Decisions About People Based On Very Small Amounts Of Coded Information. We're Good At That. Long Descriptions Prior To Meeting Someone Or As You're Getting To Know Them Almost Don't Work.