Maybe It's Shallow Of Me To Have

I Would Rather Five People Knew My Work And Thought It Was Good Work Than Five Million Knew Me And Were Indifferent.

I Often Think It Can Often Be Very Difficult For Comedians To Revisit The Same Gag. I Think Russell's A Bit More Than A Comedian.

It Was Mainly To Do With Helen Hunt, To Be Honest. That's What Drew My Attention To It. I Was Interested In The Fact That She Was Going To Be Directing. I'd Never Met Her But She Projects A Degree Of Intelligence And It Was Convincing T Me That She'd Be Able To Handle This Sort Of Material Very Well.

I Was Gearing Up For It. I Took Some Singing Lessons. And I Opened My Mouth, And Atom Promptly Said, 'that's Not Going To Happen. We Love Your Voice, But Maybe We Could Use Some Of Your English Wit.' He Had Doubts About It From Way Back. For Starters, We Weren't Going To Be Doing The Italian-american Crooning Thing.

It's Entirely To Do With Personality, I Think. There Are Good Directors Who Talk A Lot, Bad Directors Who Talk A Lot, And Good Directors Who Don't Say Much And Vice-versa. It Just Depends On Whether People Respond To That Personality And Whether People Have A Willingness To Do Something For Them.