Fandango Claims It Has No Tickets Available, Dammit

I learned from the Literary Saloon that Tom Stoppard is adapating Phillip Pullman's His Dark Materials for the big screen. They mention an interview he gave to the British Council about the project, which includes this brief string of unmixed and mixed metaphors:

Well, to his great credit, Philip doesn’t chop up the food on the plate before he gives it to you. He’s the best kind of writer. He writes with his nerve endings open and follows his nose, as it were, and goes to where his instinct tells him.

I was going to look up a Times of London interview referenced in this conversation, but they expect me to pay them to let me look at their old content, so instead here's an interview with Pullman for the European edition of Time.