What projects are you working on now? Is there anything sort of going on?

No. It was going to do Akira-- it's a bit of a funny period in the film business at the moment. I was going to do Akira, a Japanese anime film. I started on it, went up to Canada, and that went into rewrites and budget problems. So I finished on that, came home. Then I was going to China for a huge film, and that went away -- budget problems on it. And I'm just talking about films at the moment, but nothing I can talk about to anybody else. It's been quite good because I've been home seeing my granddaughter, and get a lot of stuff done around the farm.

Are there any chances that you'll be directing more television or a full feature?

Umm, actually, at seven o'clock I have a conference call with an actress in LA about a [possible] feature to direct. A really nice little storyline. That's the one I'd desperately like to do.

That's great!

I'd like to do that, yes, it would be lovely. A really nice story. We're going to keep our fingers crossed on that one, but I'll put it on the website if it comes off. [laughs] The hardest past, we've done casting. Nobody's worth has been foreign until they've done something, and of course, when they've done anything, bloody agents want the world for them, you know? [Editor's note: My recorder quality was a bit spotty for this sentence, so this is my best attempt to reconstruct it.]

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It's a catch-22. It's so funny.

Is it an action picture or would you get to work more with actors on this one?

It's an acting piece. You know, I do like dealing with acting. I did a Young Indiana Jones which is one of the most fun things I ever did. What I don't want to do is a crash and burn thing -- they're a dime a dozen and not worth it. I'd much rather do a $20 million second unit on a big film than a $5 million crash and burn. This is actually a good story. It starts off as a relationship movie and then halfway through it kicks into a bit of a surreal [picture], and a little bit about God. It's quite an interesting story. [laughs]

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You've got some really good relationships in it, and you'd finish watching it and go, "Hmm, that makes me think a bit," which is nice.