As Soon As You Think You Can

You Can Do Anything You Like - Really - But This Sci-fi Is Absolutely Disciplined, It's Zen, You Have To Be Absolutely Focused In An Area. You Have To Zone Into An Area And You Then You Can Achieve When You Get There. It's Really Weird!

Clearly, You Can Think Back And See That A Character Has Had Enormous Odds Stacked Against Him And Has To Overcome Them. It's Usually A Guy, I'm Afraid. But Then You're Setting Up A New Movie You Have Amnesia About These Meetings, When You've Discussed It More Analytically.

Most Films That I Do, Whether Successful Or Not, Just Fade Away. They Have Their Moment In The Sun, Then They Are Gone. 'trainspotting' Did Not, And Especially With Journalists. So Whenever I Launched A New Film, I'd End Up Talking About 'trainspotting.'

Both Of My Sisters Have Been Teachers And They Used To Say You Get Asked Between 300 And 600 Questions Every Day Which You Have To Answer. That's Exactly What Directing Is. And The Vast Majority Of Those Questions Are Not Very Interesting Really, But They Need Somebody To Make A Decision - A Good One Or A Bad One - And They Follow It.

But Interestingly Star City's Technology Is All 1970s - Still. In Fact, It's Alarming Because You Think, "you're Not Going To Send Someone Up Into Space In Something That Old, Are You?" But It Works And It Always Has Worked And It Doesn't Fail And It's Incredibly Reliable.