It is really hard when the actor you pictured can't do the film.

There is a magic thing called 'tone' in a film, that the director must master and maintain.

That's one thing I find about having children - it does unlock a door that separates you from other women who've had children.

Novels have become equally important to me as films. I consider myself a storyteller and passionately engaged in both of those disciplines.

It is really hard when the actor you pictured can't do the film.

I think one of the great joys of being a writer is you can transcend everything, even your own sex, what century you live in, and how you think. I found it quite natural to think as a male because I actually think that as a female, one often thinks in the mind of a male in terms of eroticism. You think about what the other person feels. So it's not that hard to imagine being that person.

I've always been fascinated by the way that children and animals suffer stoically in a way that I don't think adults do.