A hobby, it was an incipient hobby that gradually became a career without me making a coherent decision at any point. I'm actually quite astonished that I could be considered to be one, compared to some of the prolific writers of history. I mean, P.G Wodehouse must have knocked up at least sixty novels. That's not a lot of words, so it doesn't take long to type them. The rest of the time is spent getting spurious background information.
Ideas are easy.
Getting your mind right so that you have the ideas is the hardest part. Curiously enough it tends to go the other way. God, it's the way he tells them. In fact, sometimes it's quite hard to be taken seriously. Get the merchandising out, then release the movie.