As Soon As You Think You Can

It's Not So Much What You Learn About Mumbai, It's What You Learn About Yourself, Really. It's A Funny Old Hippie Thing, But It's True As Well. You Find Out A Lot About Yourself And Your Tolerance, And About Your Inclusiveness.

Most Films That I Do, Whether Successful Or Not, Just Fade Away. They Have Their Moment In The Sun, Then They Are Gone. 'trainspotting' Did Not, And Especially With Journalists. So Whenever I Launched A New Film, I'd End Up Talking About 'trainspotting.'

Everybody Knows Aaron Sorkin's Scripts. There's A Huge Amount Of Lines. There's A Huge Amount Of Interchange. You Gotta Do A Lot Of Learning To Be Able To Get It Up To Pace.

Some Of Us Are Interested In Directors, But Really The Vast Majority Of Us Are Interested In Actors. 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.

I Kind Of Call Myself An Atheist, I Suppose - Although Quite A Spiritual Atheist, I Hope.