It's the same thing in a way, although writing a book is a very solitary thing.

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

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.

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

Well, Company of Wolves was about that literally, about fairy tales.

The Company of Wolves doesn't belong in any category, so it's difficult to prepare an audience for it. It's not a horror film, it's not a fantasy film, it's not a children's film - so what is it?

You've got to play what people think you are, rather than what you are. You have to have a sense of what you are as you're playing what people think you are.