Foxes was a movie that didn't do a lot of business but it didn't do too badly critically and eventually they offered me other things. The interesting thing was that next I tried a film called Star Man, which Michael Douglas was producing.

Always, with any movie that I do, I have a book of ideas that I've heard, or seen, or whatever, and I always try to incorporate it in the film.

I wanted to make a movie about the arbitrary nature of love.

The danger is that if you have a bunch of ideas that you forget to use.

Their every instinct - and I have to say this is without exception - is to iron out the bumps, and It's always the bumps that are the most interesting stuff.

I was speaking to Ridley Scott the other day and he makes a film every 18 months. He's amazing really.

Well, I think just the fact that you are making your first film is a huge step.