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You Start As An Audience Member And Create A World You're Interested In, And Then You Move Into The Telling Of Those Stories, Bringing What Has Interested You As An Audience Member.

Just In The Past Few Years - Since I've Been Making Movies, Which Isn't A Very Long Time - You Now Have A Culture That Is Fascinated And Informed About The Box Office In A Way That Sometimes Filmmakers Weren't Even.

I Was Always Looking For The Most Dramatic Emphasis. One Example Would Be The Letter Writing, Or The Reading Of The Letters. If You Remember From The Book, They Find The Letters And Then In The Most Undramatic Way They Take Them Downstairs, They Get Approval, They Sit At A Table During The Day With Their Own Author, Across From Each Other.

I Will Say That The Idea Of A Woman Being Deceptive Came From That Original Discussion With Critics And Reporters About If Woman Could Do That Kind Of Thing. Evelyn, Herself, Grew Out Of The Discussions About How Capable Women Are Of Deceit And Lying And Manipulation.

Without In The Company Of Men, I Could Still Be Teaching, So Who Knows If This Would've Existed.