Samuel Johnson, William Blake, TS Eliot, Keats, Dante, Shelley, Beckett, Chekhov, Voltaire, Sophocles, booze, baccy, er...

Recently mad busy. We've just finished shooting a film I wrote with my brother called Fair Game. Another script I wrote loosely based on The Man Who Knew Too Much, is casting. I'm nearing completion of a script based on the Indian mathemetician Ramanujan. I'm researching another one to do with my bro about Dylan and the Band in Woodstock. I'm writing the scripts for a TV co-production with Company Pictures of an original idea set in a pub in Camden to make next year.

I'm 32, have a very shaky hold on measuring the passage of time, thinking of buying a dog, enjoying boating, and find it impossible to leave pubs.