Sarah Waters

I'm interested in stories that aren't getting told: it's where my interests lie.

I used to write at home, but it didn't ever occur to me to be a writer.

I used to hate flying. I would sit there, rigid, convinced that if I relaxed, the plane would drop out of the sky.

You can't say the public likes generic characters. Give others a chance, go for a more rooted and honest characterisation, take some risk, and then let the public choose.

I was thinking of going to London drama schools or to New York, because France didn't accommodate the things I wanted to do in film.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.