I do enjoy working with writers.

For me, the filmmaking has to be about the dramaturgy.

I'm less comfortable making American movies because I don't know them so well.

If movies have to satisfy every possible quadrant before they're even made, they're dull. You only get great things when people overreach themselves.

It's the opposite journey from what I've usually done with films. I find it very easy to go from, say, a lit, pleasurable environment, like what you see outside there, to a very dark place. But the opposite journey, which is what this movie takes, is much more complicated.

Films have gotten leaner and leaner, cutting out all variations from the story line.

The Company of Wolves is about how society teaches young women to look at themselves, and what to be afraid of. It's about a girl learning that the world of sensuality and the unknown is not to be feared, that it's worth getting your teeth into.