Weekend - The Making of Sylvia

Director Michael Firth says he had to use three British actors in order to finance the $3 million movie. But he has every confidence in Eleanor David's ability to capture the trials of a 30-year old Sylvia.

– Reporter Ainslie Talbot

She wasn't ordinary. She wasn't at all ordinary.

– Actor Eleanor David on Sylvia Ashton-Warner

It was a fun, freewheeling programme and I loved doing it.

– Weekend presenter Gordon McLauchlan

I don't use the word 'method' and this is part of my style. You've got to watch your vocabulary when your craft or your trade us words, you must be very careful with your words. I've tried to stop them using this word 'method', I feel like it belongs to industry. I like the word 'style' because I am an artist.

– Sylvia Ashton-Warner on method vs style in writing and education

I don't write the book, the book writes me, I just type it. 

– Sylvia Ashton-Warner on her approach to writing