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One of my guilty pleasures is to sit on Norwegian public transport and think up stories. With the eternal landscapes of rock, fjord and tree, the often dreary weather, the indecipherable town names and long distances, making up fiction is …

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Why? When there’s a great novel, a complete work of art, a pleasure ground for the imagination of the reader to explore, gently guided by the author, or a gripping thriller to keep one up till the small hours greedily …

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I’m often asked whether the screenplay for my film Skin, based on the life of Sandra Laing, is adapted from a book. The simple answer is No, but as I’ve often found, the truth, the whole truth, is not only …

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As a producer, I prefer to make films that are conceived for the cinema, not adaptations of material originated in another medium. However, financiers and film distributors much prefer adaptations. Thus, despite my own preferences, of the sixteen films I …

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