What's the one question no one ever asks you - and what's your answer?

There's a show here that airs on a little cable network here called Bravo [called] Inside The Actor's Studio, and they bring on for an hour each episode a different actor, director or writer.

They ask them really smart questions about their craft, and it's a very different kind of interview show for us in the States. It doesn't focus so much on the hype, it focuses more on the art of what they do. At the end there's always a questionnaire that the person gets asked with questions like, "What's your favourite curse word? If you couldn't do what you're doing now what do you wish that you were doing? What other profession other than the one you have would you want to attempt if you couldn't do what you do now?"

Nobody ever asks me questions like those, so I suppose the question really, "What professions would I want to attempt if I couldn't do the job that I have?" and I know that initially I would always say, "Writing is my true love and it's my true passion, and it's absolutely where I want to be."

If I were restricted from being a writer, if somehow the day came when I couldn't be a writer anymore, I would want to go back to the law - which is what I was studying before - and work in public defence. That is probably my second favourite love.

And then there's, "What's your favourite curse word?" but I'll leave that one for the next set of questions that we do.