I'd always hoped to write the story as a novel, but there was a long period when the [Bridget Jones's Baby: The Diaries] movie was stalled and in confusion. I felt frustrated creatively, and just couldn't work on the Baby material till the movie was sorted out.
I am in Ghost Rider but I'm not sure when it's coming out.
I already played James Dean in a film called Race with Destiny, but it hasn't come out yet.
On 'Platoon' I was offered in 1984 a very tiny part that Ivan Kane would go on to play. Then the financing fell out, and the film was scuttled for two years.
When you lock a movie's release date and then move it two months, it's just not good. It's good for everything but the cast, crew, and people who are creatively trying to make a film.
I had the opportunity to work with Aliens and Predators when Resident Evil 2 was being made and it was for two different studios. It was for Fox and Sony. They don't care about one another. They just want their movies. So it was very difficult to delay one and... So I had to make a very painful decision to kind of step away from directing the second movie and with the third movie it was the same.
'Poda Podi' was made in 2008 and should have released in 2009. The movie didn't come out on time and so it lost its charm.
One challenge in this industry is that you adopt a certain look for a movie, and then people don't get to see the movie for a year!
