It may be unfair of me but I do feel I know it.
I knew Spike Jonze would do something really interesting with it.
I wasn't around when Nic was playing Donald. I was around with Charlie.
Nic's Charlie is something very particular. You can't really put them together. It's a phantasm.
What he's done is recognise the cinematic nature of the book. It's beautifully realised - it's a beat film.
She's not a talker, or an intellectual, and she's a woman at a certain stage of her life who's already made a certain amount of choices.
I felt clearly that the atmosphere of the film is about loneliness, and existentialist loneliness - in all the characters, including my own.
So we had this moment with the fly, and we all thought: 'Well, you can't hope to direct a fly. If it walks around a bit, that will be enough.'
It's pretty much the best original screenplay I've ever read, for a start. Then there's the team - they're a fantastic group of people.