Which scene are you looking forward to seeing most? And how is the (bad) language in the book being handled? Those things help you see the difference between the book and the film, and to distinguish the two things as separate, as different pieces of work. That's the difference between an Australian writing a novel and a film produced by Americans. In the book the ending is years and years later and she ends up in Sydney whereas in the film it's New York. Interestingly, while essentially the same things happen in the ending of the film and the book, they couldn't be more different in the way it was done. I think that, knowing that the most important part of any story is the ending, I probably thought most about what was going to happen at the end. Which part of the book (character, event, place, etc) were you most concerned with representing well on film? It only struck me recently that there is a justice in that it took the writer of the novel to find the girl to play the main part. Such commen sense! So we did and they ended up asking her to take the role. She said that I should tell the producers. So the only credit I can take for the film is that when they were really struggling to find the right character to play Liesel, the main character, it so happens that one of the only films I saw in 2012 was Monsieur Lazhar with Sophie Nélisse and I said to my wife that that girl would be great. I realised that to then try to break the book into little pieces and write a screenplay would have been too much – it would actually have been heartbreaking – and I wanted to start writing a new book. By the end I was a complete mess but I was also very happy and that's the perfect state to finish a book in. It took three years of constant work and (happy) struggle to finish writing the book.
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