Yann Martel

The language of prose is very different than the language of cinema, so the movie has to successfully translate what was in the book.

Every book I've written has been a different attempt to understand something, and the success or failure of the previous one is irrelevant. I write the book I want.

Fanatics do not have faith - they have belief. With faith you let go. You trust. Whereas with belief you cling.

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

I am happy to the spokeswoman for this French youth that tomorrow will be spearhead new hope in the shape of the National Front.

Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful.