I'd like to think that my films are personal enough to exist without hearkening back to their respective novels.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I don't think that my films are 'literary'; they are based on the most ordinary things of life.
I'm not only my films, but I'm pretty much my films.
I think that my films are basically family stories, beyond the fact that they are global and have political and social commentary.
People always seem to see echoes of their own lives in my films.
I want all of my films to belong to me.
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.
Some writers get snooty about what happens when their books are adapted to film, but I don't feel that way.
I think books, novels and autobiographies have a power to touch people far more personally than films do, so there's a bit more of a responsibility when you then dramatise it.
I categorically resist this idea that films are supposed to be autobiographical and the only stories you tell are about your own life.
My films are completely new. I am not similar to anybody in the history of movies.