Personal Project Quotes

It was a really strange and unique sort of process for me to adapt my own book.

Creating a record on my own and deciding who plays and how the songs were structured, it was fun to do.

Definitely, doing my solo stuff, it's fun in a different way. I get a lot more say. However, there's a lot more work to do because I have to make everything happen.

I really missed what I'd done on Rogers Cable, which was shooting and editing all my own stuff.

Any car designer always dreams about designing their own car - if they say they don't, they're lying... For me, it was never about starting my own company just to make another car.

Now I'm back in LA, it's high time to finish a little something I've been working on.

I'm in the process of trying to organize my DVDs into some kind of order and it's taking me weeks. I have everything from obscure 'Antonioni' to 'Terminator Salvation.'

I started writing 'Normal People' not knowing that anyone would read it, not knowing that anyone would read the first book, so I didn't really have any hang ups about, 'Oh, I can't do this again. I've done this already.' It was just a project I was working on for my own amusement.

I'd like to helm my own series. Something British.

The Quartets have been a major part of my work.

When I started working on 'Stay With Me,' I thought it would take two years to complete the novel.

In general, it's best if you're building something that you yourself need.

It's not so much that I want to direct but that I have to. When I write something it terrifies me that if I give it to someone else and it doesn't turn out as it could have done, I'd feel as if I'd orphaned my baby.

When I first told people I was writing a book, some would say that was interesting, but others thought it was some holiday project and I would lose interest. I think my parents thought the same thing, and they were surprised when I kept going. I'm not sure I thought I would keep going, but then it became a big part of my life.

I kinda like the idea of having an album that's all me.

I want to write a studio movie, but probably one that's for me to be in.

I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.

I want to make my own movie.

A director is a very selfish person. For him, his film is like his baby.

I've been an amature inventor for a long time.

I've always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.

Something I've really been wanting to do, ever since 'Six Feet Under' ended, was create my own version of this idealized writer's room as well as the ideal family.

I only work on my books at nights and at weekends. It is really just like a hobby.

I'd rather work on my radio show, which no one hears but I put about eight hours of programming and writing into it for those 30 people who do tune in.

Closest to my heart is probably 'Toast of London' because I came up with the character, based on a bunch of people I worked with in the industry. And Channel 4 didn't mess with it. Head to screen, it was exactly as I wanted it.