Casting is all about availability, as much as anything else.

Most films go out like skydivers who have had their chutes packed by a committee of blind schizophrenics.

Casting is all about availability, as much as anything else.

When I was very young, you would get the TV listings from The Globe and The Herald, and you would basically go through them, circle things, and map out your viewing week.

The thing about movies is if somebody has an idea that works, it's in, and I say that as a screenwriter as well as a director.

My gratitude to Ridley [Scott] isn't anything new. I named one of my kids after him. But he's a very important person to me.

Yeah, well I can't see a situation where I wouldn't at least re-write as a director something I was going to direct. At the moment, I wouldn't direct anything that I hadn't written. I can now say, as everybody else says, that it all depends on the script.