It’s very important that they have stories address that and not have issues resolved by magic powers or by adults or, in some cases, have issues that are left unresolved.” That is why I don’t shy away from fear of loss, from divorce, from death, from all the things that affect children one way or another, whether we like it or not. But because of the way I feel, those stories are going to necessarily contain a particular kind of emotional content. Q: Is it because you have something to say - in the case of “McPhee” about raising children - and you must say it?Ī: “I’m not the kind of person to use a story necessarily for that purpose. But the satisfaction I got from watching ‘Sense and Sensibility’ come to life was so enormous that I thought I’d like to feel that again. It’s hard and there are a lot of times when I don’t like it and I don’t want to do it. Q: Why feel the need to write stories, as opposed to just being an actress? They are both creative, but very different.Ī: “I like writing. But there must be boundaries, otherwise we become miserable.” Of course, it must be loose and you must be allowed to be brave and make mistakes, hurt yourself and all that. We need - not even rules - but boundaries and confines. Why is that better?Ī: “Extreme liberty is too difficult for us, especially when we are growing up. To me, she’s a great rebellion against all that.”
“We are bound, at the moment, by an insistence on very shallow beauty and having things that are supposed to make you look a particular way, which I find deeply worrying and which hasn’t contributed to the sum human happiness in any way, at all. I’d just finished ‘Sense and Sensibility,’ and I had a feeling there was something very cinematic about this character (Nurse Matilda) because her face changes from the beginning to the end - although she doesn’t change internally - to the kids? A: “I did, and then I happened to be dusting the bookshelves in my library - well, it’s not a library, it’s a room with lots of books in it - and I found this little book.
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