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

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

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

I can't do a film if I don't start with the writing.

Well, I suppose I'm interested in ways of storytelling and in stories that are about storytelling.

I don't think we have enough imaginary creatures in cinema. It seems like we're stuck with zombies, vampires, and werewolves. We should have everything. We should have minotaurs. We should have elves. We should have mermen in popular culture. But instead we've stuck with vampires.