I got too fed up with films that didn't make you think. I liked the idea of one that you'd have to be dancing around with. I like my mind to be engaged when I watch a film.
The idea is that that there is no such thing as an external enemy.
Jake Green isn't just Jake Green. Jake represents all of us. The colour green is the central column of the spectrum and the name Jake has all sorts of numerical values. All things come back to him within the film's world of cons and games.
Yeah, I'm certainly a lot more confident on this one than I was one the last one, which I think can be a good thing and a bad thing. But, at least I slept while making this film.
What I liked about American movies when I was a kid was that they're sort of larger than life and I think I'm still suffering from that reaction.
We're quite volatile as individuals, but that doesn't work exponentially when we are together. Relationships are about eating humble pie.
We can all be conned but at what point do we realize that we're being conned and to what point do we allow ourselves to be conned?
We are not that flash, me or the missus. In fact, we are quite low-maintenance.
They're all based on factual characters. Well, a good amount of them. That's why I was attracted to this genre anyways, because these characters are so large and cartoonish, they're like caricatures, I just felt that there had to be a film made about them.
The English countryside is the most staggeringly beautiful place. I can't spend as much time there as I like, but I like everything about it. I like fishing, I like clay- pigeon shooting.
I suppose directing on set is the most fun because it's a good crack and you feel you're on the battlefield whereas writing is a fairly solitary undertaking.
The best thing to do is find one person in your life and try to love them unconditionally. If you've accomplished that, you've accomplished a lot.
Previously, on Lock, Stock, I went to bed at two in the morning and woke up at five in the morning, and on this one I was known to nod off on the set occasionally.
Other than the fact that I like a country house, I can't think of anything I'd want to spend my money on.
On Lock, Stock, we didn't know where the money for shooting the next day was coming from.