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'Pride and Prejudice' - perhaps more than any other Jane Austen book - is engrained in our literary consciousness.

The 'Pride and Prejudice' with Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle was something I watched on a weekly basis with my mum at home in Oxfordshire.

I grew up reading 'Sense and Sensibility' and 'Pride and Prejudice' - girly kind of books.

I find that movies tend to fix the aesthetics of a story in people's minds.

Since my adaptation of Ian McEwan's 'Atonement,' I get sent a lot of novels that people think will work as movies. So every now and then I make a point of sitting down and reading a couple of them.

I think my sensibility is very literary; all my books were built as books, and I wasn't thinking about them being movies.

Some writers get snooty about what happens when their books are adapted to film, but I don't feel that way.

It is always sad to write about prejudice, but sometimes when we see it being played out in the lives of fictional characters, we can recognize it in our own lives.

I love Richard Yates, his work, and the novel, Revolutionary Road. It's a devastating novel.

'Pride And Prejudice' takes place in a similar period to 'Vanity Fair,' and yet there's a huge difference between Jane Austen and Thackeray.