I spent as much time watching telly and films when I was a kid as I did lying around reading books. I think it’s crazy that writers are only allowed to say that certain books have influenced them. Nick Hornby Read Quote
I can’t imagine writing a screenplay where I didn’t feel deeply connected at some kind of visceral level to the material. Nick Hornby Read Quote
I kind of stumbled on the material for ‘An Education’ and thought it would make a good movie, and one of the things that came out of that, for me, was that I learned that if you write a big part for a girl or a young woman, you get the opportunity to work with the best talent in the world. Nick Hornby Read Quote
The more screenwriting you do, the more you become aware that particular scenes aren’t going to end up in the movie because they’re too expensive. That has perhaps changed the way I think about writing novels, actually, because now I write expensive scenes whenever I can. Nick Hornby Read Quote
Studying English was useless, completely useless. It took me years to recover from that. Every time I tried to write, it sounded like a bad university essay. Nick Hornby Read Quote
There were authors I read as an adult who completely inspired me. But when I was a teenager, I got to hang out with Tom Stoppard for a bit. My mum was his wife’s secretary. He was obviously super smart, but he was also approachable and normal. I think he was the first person I’d ever met who I’d thought, ‘Oh, I see. There’s a living in this.’ Nick Hornby Read Quote
You can’t really ask for anything more than to be working for your entire life – and to be doing something that some people respond to. Nick Hornby Read Quote
A lot of what ‘Funny Girl’ is about, for me, is the experience feeling very happy doing a certain thing with a certain group of people. That partly came about because of having really positive experiences writing movies. Nick Hornby Read Quote
