I can't do a film if I don't start with the writing.

I can't do a film if I don't start with the writing.

But everyone gets burnt, don't they? Certain things are outside of your control. I suppose the only thing you can learn as a director is to not put yourself into situations where it can get outside of your control. And that's what happened.

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.

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

For example, the character of Claire in In Dreams wasn't imagined enough by me. Annette Bening is a great actress, and she gave a great performance, but because I hadn't fully written it essentially the character wasn't finished.

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?