I Trained In The Theatre.

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.

Basically, Actors Arrive In A Bubble. They Have A Little Sealed Bubble Around Them And It's Basically [comprised Of] Their Agents, Their Last Film, Their Next Film, Their Press Agent, And Their Per Diems - All These Things, They Cocoon Themselves With And You Have To Puncture That Bubble On Each Of Them To Make Them Be In Your Film.

To Be A Film-maker, You Have To Lead. You Have To Be Psychotic In Your Desire To Do Something. People Always Like The Easy Route. You Have To Push Very Hard To Get Something Unusual, Something Different.

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.

I Don't Want People To Sit There And Objectively Watch The Film. I Want Them To Experience It As Something That's Under Their Skin, So You Try To Make The Films Really Tactile.