the film that you have in your head, yourfilm, that you would create from your own vision and direct, it s never going to happen? no, look, the truth is, i m really. i really feel that i m getting satisfaction, both creative satisfaction, and personal satisfaction from working with other people, and contributing to the films i ve contributed to. i would never have had a career as a director and worked on the kind of films i ve worked on with other directors, would i? yeah. and if my career had started out and i d gone in that direction, directing, i might have, if i d been lucky, directed five or ten films, you know, maybe one or two people might have said, they were pretty good . i don t know. i don t know, but i, you know, equally, i could have been a stills photographer, and, god, would i have loved to have beenjames nachtwey?
and your movie stats speak for themselves, and we ve talked about it all, in terms of this amazing collaboration that you ve had with a series of brilliant directors. is there a time, will there be a time, when you want to direct yourself? there was, and i ve written a couple of scripts, but, i mean, frankly, i can never see the kind of film that i would really want to make. it s probably too dark! really? yeah, i m a pretty negative person, really! films i like are, yeah, kind of dark. it s not really the world today. people don t want to watch those kind of films. so you re telling me the film that you have in your head, yourfilm, that you would create from your own vision and direct, it s never going to happen? no, look, the truth is, i m really. i really feel that i m getting satisfaction, both creative satisfaction, and personal satisfaction from working with other people, and contributing to the films i ve contributed to.