Good Storytelling For Me Is Not So

Your First Film Is Always Your Best Film, In A Way. There's Something About Your First Film That You Never Ever Get Back To, But You Should Always Try. It's That Slight Sense Of Not Knowing What You're Doing, Because The Technical Skills You Learn - Especially If You Have A Film That Works, That Has Some Kind Of Success - Are Beguiling. The Temptation Is To Use Them Again, And They're Not Necessarily Good Storytelling Techniques.

Some Of Us Are Interested In Directors, But Really The Vast Majority Of Us Are Interested In Actors. You Experience The Films Through The Actors, So They're All Locked Into Your Imagination In Some Kind Of Layer Of Fantasy Or Hatred Or Wherever They Settle Into Your Imagination.

There's Lots Of Things That Can Be Solved With Cash. And There's Occasional Things That Can't Be Solved With Cash, Which Become A Bureaucratic Nightmare For Some Reason, And There's No Distinction Between The Two. There's No Way Of Reading A Situation And Saying, "yes, That'll Be A Bureaucratic Nightmare, But That One We'll Be Able To Buy Off." It Just Depends On The Day, Apparently.

It Just Seduces You When You Read A Story And Your Brain Relates To It. You Recognize Or Connect With It. You Identify With It; You're Bound To.

I Always Wanted To Make This Film Or Another Film. I Thought The Worst Thing You Could Do Was To React To Slumdog's Success In Some Way. I Thought It Would Be Really Foolish.