I Like To Act. I Work For

When I Read A Story Or See Something Play Out In Front Of Me I Say, How Come Nobody's Made A Movie Or A Television Show Out Of This? This Is Something That Belongs In The Conversation. Certainly That's What Interests Me About A Project.

As A Screenwriter I'm Often Writing In Genres Where There Have Been Thousands Of Movies; Whereas When I Direct Movies They Tend To Be In Between Genres. They Tend To Have A Little Bit Of A Genre To Them, But They're Really About The People, And They're People We Haven't Met Before.

Not That I've Always Loved The Movie When They Finally Come Out, Or If They Ever Come Out-because Many Of Them Don't Come Out-but I've Gotten To Work With Really Good Story Editors And Stuff Like That.

I Made It About A Three-day Weekend So People Wouldn't Have To Change Their Clothes A Lot. We Didn't Have An Art Department; We Didn't Have A Make-up Department.

Basically, If You Could Get A Good Trailer Out Of The Script, Roger Had No Objection To You Making A Really Good Movie. He Liked It If You Did. He Liked The More Cleverness And Ingenuity You Could Bring To It. He Just Wasn't Going To Give You Any More Money.