If you are prepared to make a fool of yourself for them then you usually get that back. I think that there are points where you become so close to an actor, you know them so well, almost as well or better than their spouse. You have to know them, warts and all.

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

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

I've always been interested in films where you can identify with the actors. Where you can be in their shoes and therefore be more involved if they're people that you recognize.

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.

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

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