There's a kind of 'held in' quality to the two main characters in which they don't always express their feelings. That's quite tough. And I think one of the major difficulties was trying to replace the wit that's in Jane Austen 's narrative, but which you can't use because it's almost all in the author's voice telling us about characters, with a certain wit or lightness that came from the characters themselves. It's a craft job, interpreting the novel for oneself and then finding a film language for it. Where television conventionally relies on people speaking all the time, film will have many scenes in which people don't speak.
Meaning accrues through what people do and how they look.
We've attempted to capture something of that in the film. There is plenty of dialogue, but there are also plenty of times where you're looking particularly at Anne and there is no dialogue. I think it's quite a hard structure to transfer to a single film, because there are some twists but they are very delicate ones. This is a story which is not driven by plot. The plot is accident.