David Lean

I rather like mysteries. But I do dislike muddles.

I've just begun to dare to think I perhaps am a bit of an artist.

Don't make jokes about food.

If you're going to go to an audition, you don't want to go in trying to force yourself into some archetype that has been thought up by a director and translated by a casting director.

Most detective story readers are an educated audience and know there are only a certain number of plots. The interest lies in what the writer does with them.

The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.