Brian Cox Is The Nicest Guy, But

I Think Women Assess Time Passage Much Better Than Men - Because Of Their Biological Clocks - And They Are Much More Realistic About Measuring Out Time, Whereas Men Tend To Hang Onto Things. Women Acknowledge The Biology Of Their Time, And Dance Through The Beat Of That Drum...whereas Men Just Drum.

You Use Elements Of Noir, But You Don't Want It To Be Too Noir-ish. You Don't Want It To Be Advertised As Though You're Asking People To Go And Watch An Updated Noir. I Don't Think They'll Go Do That. They Want To See A Modern Story.

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.

I Find My Own Pain And Others' Difficult To Tolerate, So I Always Want To Try To Shift Things So They'll Be Better. But In Doing That, If I Am Coming From A Place Of Ego, I Often Cause Harm. So It's A Struggle For Me To Set My Ego Outside And Find A Softer And More Compassionate Way Of Approaching Things.

I Haven't Got Anything Against Films That Are About The Minutia Of Relationships Or Customs, But I Love Extremes. I Love Taking A Bunch Of Characters And It Usually Is A Bunch Of Characters, And You Throw Something At Them That's Usually Extreme, Like A Bag Of Money, Or You Send Them Out To Explode A Nuclear Device On The Surface Of The Sun. And Those Extremes Are Wonderful For Drama.