“I haven't read a lot of Westerns. But I wrote a Western. The influence...” — Patrick deWitt Quote

“I haven't read a lot of Westerns. But I wrote a Western. The influences were all cinematic.”

“A lot of my favourite books - I should say, not much happens in the books! It's much more about the points of view of the author more than anything else.”

“I think of myself as somebody who, in a moment-to-moment way, I'm quite happy. But I think I am a bit doubtful and wary of true happiness, and, like a lot of my friends, there's been a good degree of self-sabotage.”

“There's a way in which filmmaking is a director's medium and television is a writer's medium, so even as TV gets more cinematic, it's still guided by the writer.”

“Probably 90 percent of the stuff I make has inevitably been done before... Whether it's playing Hamlet, which has been on the go for 400 years, or pieces from the cinematic world that also have been essayed before, I feel released by that.”

“I had worked in TV prior to working on 'Game of Thrones' - 'Game of Thrones' is far more cinematic than any other television show that I had done before, and so I feel that the worlds of TV and film are most definitely merging as one.”