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

I had made a decision, although I hardly knew it yet. It's often that way with decisions, they're made in some hidden part of us and the awareness secretes itself slowly into that conscious part of us that imagines it decides.

Is it fair to have given us the memory of what was and the desire of what could be when we must suffer what is?

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

The truth is that seals look more like dogs. And I'm surrounded by seals because I live by the sea. They're odd bloody creatures. Not fish, they don't have gills, they should have legs, but they don't. They're the weirdest things, you know?

Well, if you're talking about the current climate, there's a lack of content in American film because I think people are deeply confused about their emotions, and they don't regret certain aspects of their own foreign policy.

I'm less comfortable making American movies because I don't know them so well.