I think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert, the empty space, the drama.
I think this is the greatest and best country in all the world, with its great sunlit spaces and its long long roads, and best of all the roads that are not made yet, and the stories that no one has told because they are too busy living them.
The more I go to Australia, the more I realise how enormous the country is and how much there is to see. There's really nowhere like it.
Being lost in Australia gives you a lovely feeling of security.
I like big, open, spare landscapes. There's lots of room. Nobody bothers you... I feel as if I can think there.
Norman is a very up-close, personal, character drama and I'd like to do something more zoomed out, a little more pastoral, some sweeping epic. I'd like to try something different.
The continent is too large to describe. It is a veritable ocean, a separate planet, a varied, immensely rich cosmos. Only with the greatest simplification, for the sake of convenience, can we say 'Africa'. In reality, except as a geographical appellation, Africa does not exist.
Orcs, and talking trees, and leagues of grass, and galloping riders, and glittering caves, and white towers and golden halls, and battles, and tall ships sailing, all these passed before Sam's mind.
