I'm ... Incredibly Open With My Mates.

I Worked With John Maybury On The Jacket And I Think He's An Extraordinary Film-maker. I Read The First Drafts Of This Piece When I Was Working On The Jacket, And We'd So Fallen In Love With Him That We Thought He Was The Only Person That Should Direct This! We Wrote Poems For Him, We Sent Him Champagne And Cakes. Four Years Later He Finally Read It.

It's A Difficult Thing When You Try And Make A Film Of A Book That You Really Love. You Have About Two Hours To Tell The Story, And It's Never Going To Be Enough.

I Don't Read My Reviews. Unless I'm Unfortunate Enough To Catch Something By Accident, Which Happens, And It's Always A Bad Review. Always, It's Amazing. I Will Be Sitting In A Café, And I Will Open A Random Paper Right To The Page Of The Review.... And Then You're Sucked In And Go Home And Never Want To Go Out Again.

A Lot Of Times In Cinema Today The Women Are Overly Sentimental, So I Constantly Try To Do The Opposite. I Like Strident Women.

It's All About Perfection, Isn't It?