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

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?

It's nice to work with Hollywood because there is never any question of resources put at your disposal to make a film as long as it is the right thing to do.

I've had three novels published, and I was working a little bit in theater in Ireland. I wrote one film script just to see what it would turn out like.

My conception of it was that in a normal film you have a story with different movements that program, develop, go a little bit off the trunk, come back, and end.

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.

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