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.

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

Initially with The Butcher Boy, there was this kid growing up in this strange, weird environment that I remember from when I was a kid. And Patrick's vision was so complete there.

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

And I think I often choose to do something because it's quite different from what I've done before.

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

The most difficult thing is the organization of people and the expression of your intentions. It's very easy to have a picture in your head and to imagine that you've told everybody about what you need.