Much better to let other people do it and then occasionally you show up and eat their food on set or come to their gala premieres and, you know, excitedly meet everyone. I would be so faithful, I think, to my own work. So right there you have the writer taking licence to do something fresh. It’s a couple of steps down from the Nobel prize and in the film it’s the Nobel. First of all, the prize that the writer wins in the novel is a made-up prize called the Helsinki prize. You want to have a point where you are really done with something, you know? Besides, Jane Anderson brought some interesting new things to The Wife. Well, I go through a very intense process when I’m writing a book, so the idea of repeating that for a film seems exhausting. Was it hard handing the book over to the screenwriter, Jane Anderson ? It takes a lot of people to get a movie made and being part of something that’s a group effort, even in a secondary way, is very enjoyable. It’s kind of surreal sometimes, but very exciting because so much of what I do is alone in a room and this is an ensemble. How has it been watching The Wife go from the page to the screen?
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