You never know what people are going to go and see.
Casting is always subject to availabilities.
I never viewed screen drama as a vulgar form, or a lesser one, and I've never written it left-handed.
In all honesty a gangster picture was the easiest kind of film for me to get made.
I came into screenwriting from an odd direction, because the first screenplay that I read was and is better as writing than the top one percent of literary novels.
Actors are players and if they're hot, or onto something, you let them go, or you and the actor can both get on to something. I always run out with lines as I think of them.