(as) A Director Who Is A Writer,

Every Single Director-actor I Talked To, From Warren Beatty To Clint Eastwood To George Clooney, Said The Biggest Mistake They Made Is Not Shooting Enough Footage Of Themselves.

There's Something Really Great And Romantic About Being Poor And Sleeping On Couches.

I Thought I Could Rely On The Plot In The Novel And Fill In The Colour Between The Lines, But I Made A Mistake With That Assumption. It Was Really, Really Hard Because You Pull A Few Things Apart And Then You Realise How Everything Relies On Everything Else And It Can All Fall Apart.

I'm Not Known For Having Great Relationships With Ex-girlfriends, But I've Been Able To Continue One With (gwyneth Paltrow) That's Really Valuable.

One Of The Differences Between Now And Then Is That The Idea Of Body Image Is A Much Bigger Issue Now. Back Then, Just Being Kind Of Heavy And Barrel-chested Passed For Heroic. Now, You Wouldn't Dare To Play A Hero Without A Lot Of Dieting And Various Specialised Abdomen Machines. But That Was One Of The Things Which Was Interesting About It And I Did Want To Portray Because There's Good And Bad.