For me now, it's about what you would write and what you wouldn't write, and that's how I select what I am going to do. It can be quite nice being brought a concept by a studio for me to work on.

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

The Company of Wolves is about how society teaches young women to look at themselves, and what to be afraid of. It's about a girl learning that the world of sensuality and the unknown is not to be feared, that it's worth getting your teeth into.

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

I do enjoy working with writers.

There's no point in making a film out of a great book. The book's already great. What's the point?

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