Temple Grandin (TV Movie 2010)

Memento (2000) The Man in the High Castle (TV Series) Chéri (2009) Ex Machina (2015) Wristcutters: A Love Story (2006) Upstream Color (2013) Garden State (2004) Fateless (2005) Some Voices (2000) Nick Hornby: ‘I couldn’t write Fever Pitch now. One of the things that made it was its lack of perspective’ You have written four screenplays: Fever Pitch, An Education, Wild and Brooklyn. What lessons have you learned over time about how to do it?The hardest thing – compared to writing novels – is to keep yourself up throughout the process because it is so long and so dispiriting and there is never any sign of an end product. You spend an awful lot of time, if you have another job, thinking: what is the point of this? And then things get made and turn out well and you think: gosh, that was the point. Is the technique of writing for the screen about less-is-more, showing rather than telling? Is adapting from a novel you did not write like picking up a foreign language – do you try to catch the tone of the book? Artistically speaking, you are starting to get a reputation as a ladies man: you made your name writing about lads stuff – football, nerdy music buffs – but now are focusing on women. Brooklyn raises the question: how much are people’s romantic choices governed by chance?

Wall Street (1987) Falling Down (1993) The Hunt (2012)