Tatiana de Rosnay

The opening lines of a book are so important. You really need to somehow charm your reader. If you can't get her attention in the first pages, you may have lost her. There has to be an ambience.

I think books and movies are going to go a long way together in the future. I think we writers are very important material for directors.

Sometimes I get to see a movie that's adapted from a book that I haven't heard about or that I love the movie so much that I will, of course, read the book.

Influenced by Pete Seeger and the Weavers, McLean proudly wore the mantle of troubadour in the early 1970s, when 'American Pie' topped the Billboard charts, and has never shed the cape.

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

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.