The Piano ended up on television. Everything ends up there anyway.

It's a luxury to be able to tell a long form story. I love novels, and I love to have a long relationship with characters.

You know, sex is actually not so original as the way people love or the stories behind each relationship, which is what you remember. Sex is sex in the end.

When you first fall in love it's so thrilling, you can't wait to throw yourself away and make this new wonderful twosome.

One of the things we learn in movies directed by men is what the 'fantasy woman' is. What we learn in movies directed by women is what real women are about. I don't think that men see things wrong and women right, just that we do see things differently.

I took four years off after 'In the Cut' because I wanted to see who I'd be without work. I even tried being a hermit in the wilderness in New Zealand. I stayed in a warden's hut two-and-a-half hours off the Routeburn Track through the fjords on the South Island. It was early winter, so there was no electricity or running water.

I have to admit that I had a lot of problems with poetry.