But the smoking is very frustrating. Who knows where it will go; where the story will go; where the character will go? There's still lots of options.

At the end of the day, you're trying to make a certain film within a certain budget. Those rules never change.

I alwyas want to try and create new looks and new things, but equally scary, hopefully. But a new kind of style.

I think as long as the standard of quality, the story-telling, film-making, acting etc. etc. remains consistent, then you've got a good change of making a decent anthology.

I think there's a whole book being written about it in the UK. I don't know if you can get it here. It's about all the hidden messages and meetings in this and the fact that it is about women and the fact that this cave is full of blood and all this kind of stuff. And when I was making it, I didn't make it with that specifically in mind, but I always had it in the back of mind and I thought, 'Let's just throw it in there and see what people make of it.' And people seem to be making quite a lot of it. So I don't want to spell it out or say this, that or the other.

It's the one thing, a compromise I guess. On network it's the one thing you can't smoke on network. That's one of his character traits. We're working around that. We're trying to get aspects of it in there as much as possible. We'll see.

But the smoking is very frustrating. Who knows where it will go; where the story will go; where the character will go? There's still lots of options.