The theater of the mind is impossible to compete with, and I like the idea that with a few suggestions, each reader forms in his or her own mind what a character or a place looks like.
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The issue of doing an adaptation of a book is the theater of the mind, and so you always face that.
There's always an anxiety about playing literary characters because one of the great joys of reading books is that you can create your own vision of things.
I try to turn a place on film into a mental state. I always have three or four locations that I repeat and return to in a film, to make it more mythic. But my fiction films are relatively subjective stories, experienced though one character. And that always justifies a little stylisation in terms of landscape.
That's why I love being a writer. My imagination can take me places I may never see except in my mind's eye.
Every story I write starts with a dilemma or a theme. Once I am convinced that this is the issue that is perturbing my thoughts, I start to look for characters capable of representing it.
The play is on top of me all the time, and I am constantly thinking about it. Even when I leave the theatre, I'll mumble the lines to myself or think about the way the character walks or holds himself.
The writer's is an interior world, a world of the mind.
Ultimately, in my mind, that's what I'm trying to do with my fiction; I'm trying to transport my reader into a different world.
Part of being a fiction writer is being able to imagine how someone else is thinking and feeling. I think I've always been good at that.
I wanted to give readers the feeling of knowing the characters, a mental image.
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