I Think People Direct Good Films When

Once You Have Been In An Earthquake You Know, Even If You Survive Without A Scratch, That Like A Stroke In The Heart, It Remains In The Earth's Breast, Horribly Potential, Always Promising To Return, To Hit You Again, With An Even More Devastating Force.

My First Novel - The Novel I Wrote Before 'midnight's Children' - Feels, To Me, Now, Very - I Mean, I Get Embarrassed When I See People Reading It. You Know, There Are Some People Who, Bizarrely, Like It. Which I'm, You Know, I'm Happy For.

You Don't Fight Radical Conservatism With Not-quite-so Radical Conservatism.

What Kind Of Christmas Present Would Jesus Ask Santa For?

In The End, You Write The Book That Grabs You By The Throat And Demands To Be Written.