I do enjoy working with writers.

The great thing about fairy tales and myths is that they go beyond character. They're not about character. They're about more basic things. They're about basic fears or longings or desires or fantasies, and stuff like that.

I hoped that grief was similar to the other emotions. That it would end, the way happiness did. Or laughter.

There's no point in making a film out of a great book. The book's already great. What's the point?

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.

I do enjoy working with writers.

I took two years away from making films to write a novel.