I Have Always Believed That There Is

I Am A Writer Who Was Able To Direct The Films That I Write.

I'm Interested In Stories Which Insist On A Dog Fails-to-eat-dog Kind Of World. I Hate Misanthropy, Want To Believe That There's A Possibility That We Might All Be Redeemed, That Hope Deferred Makes The Soul Sick, That Our Humanity Is Fragile, Funny, Common, Crazy, Full Of The Longing For Love, The Failure Of Love.

I Don't Hold With The Notion That Only Bad Books Make Good Movies.

Look At It This Way: If You Write The Novel Of 'cold Mountain,' It Costs Exactly The Same To Produce And Market As A Novel Set In A Room. If You Make The Film, The Disparity Of Costs Is Huge.

Of Course, Like All Film-makers I've Been Mesmerised By Cinema Since I Was A Child.