I always wanted to make this film or another film. I thought the worst thing you could do was to react to Slumdog's success in some way. I thought it would be really foolish.
Film industry is a pretty brutal business. If you fall too far behind, all of the perfectionism in the world won't save you.
Theres a certain truth that you do end up making the same film again and again so if you vary the genre you have a chance of breaking that cycle.
Everybody expects you to be qualified to talk about your films, but in a way, you're the least qualified person to talk about them. When you're finished, you don't watch them at all.
I'd love to do a cop film in America. That's a genre I absolutely adore.
Its easy to like the most popular films, but I have a great fondness for A Life Less Ordinary.
I don't want to make pompous, serious films.
I haven't got anything against films that are about the minutia of relationships or customs, but I love extremes.
I don't see much difference between it and the other films though I can see on a rational and intelligent level there is a big difference.
You experience the films through the actors, so they're all locked into your imagination in some kind of layer of fantasy or hatred or wherever they settle into your imagination.