Nothing beats novel writing because it's complete expression of you. You just control everything. Not even a movie director has that level of control.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When I feel like being a director, I write a novel.
With a novel, you're the director and the screenwriter and everything else, except that you have to write it knowing it will all be performed inside the head of the reader. So it's a difficult and lonely task.
Really, when I write a book I'm the only one I have to please. That's the beauty of writing a book instead of a screenplay.
I eventually want to do writing on all the films, but not necessarily to be the writer. Writing is a painful, painful thing; it really is.
I write easily, let's put it that way. And in a novel particularly, the characters take over. And they tell me what to say and they tell me what they're doing. And I'm a third of the way into a novel and then I just let the characters finish it for me.
I love writing. I think writing and directing go hand in hand.
'Control' had to do with my own life a lot, and that's why that seemed to be a film I could be the director of, because I had an emotional attachment to the whole story. And because of that experience, I feel that I can try other films. I didn't set out to become a director.
What I have to offer as a writer/director is the stuff with the feeling in it.
In that sense, film is superior, but the difficulty is your lack of control as a writer.
I don't feel that I have to control every aspect of things that I appear in. You learn a lot performing someone else's writing.