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People sometimes ask who I would cast in my books and I never have any idea. I don't think I could ever write a book thinking of it as a movie the whole time. This would be like building a house and filling it with furniture just so you could have blueprints.

What you do is get the right director and the right screenwriter and the right cast. It's a fantastic job.

As a writer, all you want to do is write for great actors. That's all.

I think books and movies are going to go a long way together in the future. I think we writers are very important material for directors.

Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they're doing and why they're doing it.

I mean, there are many other directors who are probably both more skilled and excited to adapt novels or work within certain genre conventions. I'd like to do that kind of work someday, but for better or worse I'm too drawn by my own material.

I am definitely writing letters to lots of directors in my mind when I'm making a film. I'm chasing Woody Allen and Godard and Milos Forman and all these people.

As an author you hope your characters have sparks but truly in the end they have minds of their own!

It's very rare that you get a director that lets you be creative and bring what you feel your character should do or should be.

I give everything to my work, and I like complex roles, characters that aren't obvious. I've been very lucky so far, and I'm dreaming of working with directors like Jane Campion, Susanne Bier and the Dardennes. But the gods will decide.