james mcavoy is a wonderful young actor. kyra nightly is a star. positive experience. >> that was the first really large scale commercial film where budget was 48, 50 million, whereas all the others were -- >> modest right. >> so i was somewhat dreading the process, because commercial pressures are just different, but in fact joe wright did this brilliant thing right at the start, and i think everything else then followed, by casting this wonderful girl, sasha ronan as the 12, 13-year-old heroine. she was such a marvelous spirit on the set, a lovely girl. very loving parents who were on the set themselves who carried on her school work with her while using the studio's teacher. >> great. >> and who clearly were dead set on making sure that movies were not going to ruin her education or her life. she's now in her early 20s, extremely highly balanced, lovely, young woman. >> but a very positive experience in all ways. i'm thinking back to your very earliest books, i put your first publicked work that we might know about '75, or so. >> exactly. >> we'