A02. HRN-2623
In: 12.44.34 Out: 12.45.29
Sound Bite: Ricky Gervais
No uhm I got the first uhm draft the script and I read it and it was the best script I’ve read in five years and then uhm uh we sort of worked on it together, David came to London and then on the day you know we played with it, I mean everyday, every scene, uh we’d play with it. And I think that shows on screen, I think it, you can see the improve in their (talks) but that’s what’d fun about it really. But I must say you know the script when I read it I thought, this is me and uhm and I turned everything down till that point and I got that funny feeling and I thought this is my film, you know I could have written and so I got very excited and uh I couldn’t be happier with it and it was shooting in New York uh yeah it was great.

A04. HRN-2623
In: 12.46.12 Out: 12.46.44
Sound Bite: Ricky Gervais Can you hold in your laughter?
Oh I can’t keep it in if something is funny I laugh, I ruin the take and I don’t apologize for it and when I am directing if someone laughs I don’t shout at them I laugh. Because I think that that goes on screen I think people can see a good time was had. It would be awful to do a film that you hate during the process just for the result, life’s too short, you know it’s only an hour and a half and it takes three months to make so surly you’ve got to enjoy the three months otherwise your priorities are wrong. You know.