Being on set is difficult for the writer. Your job is done, and you have to step back and hand it over to the director.

I remembered being young in the late '70s and early '80s and growing up at the height of the Cold War. I remembered how scared I was of nuclear weapons, how often I though about them and about the possibility of everything and everyone I knew vanishing in a second in temperatures hotter than the centre of the sun.

When you are a novelist, you are used to making a narrative do what you want.

John Niven Quotes