What does Pullman think of the movie?
Take the money and run was his response. He took a hands-off approach to the film’s production. Philip Pullman: “The democracy of reading means that as soon as a book is published you lose control of how it’s interpreted anyhow, and so you should. To tell someone else how to read your book is to fall into the temptation of fundamentalism. When it comes to performance and film and so on, what you should do, it seems to me, is make sure the people you sell it to know what they’re doing, and then leave them alone. You are better employed writing new books than arguing with people about how to interpret your existing ones.” Philip Pullman: “They were making changes of all kinds, large and small, right up to the last minute – and that’s the way you make films. Some of the changes were based on the assumption that the sequels would be made swiftly after the first film, which turned out not to be the case.
