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

It's hard to know whether certain characters come to life or not, they either come to have their own life or they don't. I've written many things in which the characters just remain inert.

If movies have to satisfy every possible quadrant before they're even made, they're dull. You only get great things when people overreach themselves.

When you've written a movie, you then get together with a whole lot of people and make it. In many ways, I think it is far nicer to be with people rather than being completely solitary.

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.

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

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.