I'd been working so hard making the film that I hadn't even emotionally processed the fact that I was a director.
Most films go out like skydivers who have had their chutes packed by a committee of blind schizophrenics.
If you're playing around with a film, you're just playing around with it. But if it has to go into theaters, you get yourself into gear and finish it.
Redrafts can be very lucrative for me, but you must understand that if films go through many drafts or writers it's because someone doesn't want to do the picture and never will.
In all honesty a gangster picture was the easiest kind of film for me to get made.
In reviewing films, people get quite liberal about saying "the script" this and "the script" that, when they've never read the script any more than they've read the latest report on Norwegian herring landings.
It wasn't just British gangster films that really did for me as a kid, personally, it was British films in general.
If you see, as I do, in edited film, you're going to end up as a director.
