In all honesty a gangster picture was the easiest kind of film for me to get made.

In truth, the cinema as a delivery system obviously has its days numbered. And that's not a bad thing. When you can buy any book in the world on your iPad, or off Amazon, you don't go the public library. The public library becomes about homeless gentlemen sleeping in chairs.

As a director, you're given a tremendous apparatus to work with, and very great talents are available to you.

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.

If you're playing around with a film, you're just playing around with it. But if it has to go into theaters, you get yourself into gear and finish it.

You never know what people are going to go and see.

Get Carter is a classic, but it did nothing in the United States. It came out on a double bill with a Frank Sinatra western.