In the end, you have to do what makes you happy - the people who love you and are around you are all that matters.
In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.
I can spot empty flattery and know exactly where I stand. In the end it's really only my own approval or disapproval that means anything.
The difference being that in films, unlike in life, good does always win over evil in the end.
In the end we are all sacked and it's always awful. It is as inevitable as death following life. If you are elevated there comes a day when you are demoted. Even Prime Ministers.
If I'm a genre writer, I'm at the edge. In the end, they do work like genre fiction. You have a hero, there's a love interest, there's always a chase, there's fighting of some kind. You don't have to do that in a novel. But you do in a genre novel.
In the end, playing for England means very little if you don't see the rest of the world around you. It is why I hate prima donnas and arrogance.
I think if you work with different kinds of codes, attitudes, in the end you have a language. It's like within a person. You are not always the same.
Like I said about Freaked, people tend to find these films, and I think that in the end the cool thing about a movie is that it can be sort of burnt temporarily, but then it's burnt into the fabric of your culture.
In the end, my story, in Iraq and afterward, is about more than just killing people or even fighting for my country. It's about being a man. And it's about love as well as hate.
