I see my role as a translator, telling the story that's in the book using the more visual language of film.

I see tendencies, I see body language.

I see myself as a story teller.

A friend of mine, Neil Gaiman, had the film rights to his book 'Stardust' bought by producer Matthew Vaughn and suggested I adapt it for the screen.

My mind has become somewhat like a book. What I mean by that is that when I look at the world, I see it as a story.

Any film I see at two o'clock in afternoon with my mother seems to cast a strange spell that means we both come out sobbing.