大象传媒

Do you sometimes forget what was in your own stories?

In a way I do. You’re so into the story when you’re writing it, and it’s all-consuming. You think about it when you’re eating breakfast and you think about it when you’re driving home and, for me, once it’s sort of launched I don’t remember it as well.

I watch it, and I’m surprised by what happens in it. Maybe I only have so much room in my brain but once I write something it’s out the door and into the world of fiction. I think also the problem is that you remember all the other possibilities, the roads not travelled that you discussed in the writer’s room.

You think, "Well, what if it’s this, and what if it’s that?" Sometimes you’re talking to a friend who’s a fan and they say, "What happened there?" and you think, "Which way did it go? Which way did they see it go?" So I hope I can remember what I wrote.