How was the reception to the movie at its Apollo Theatre premiere last night?
Scott: Generally, I think they really loved it actually. I was a little worried about doing the Apollo, because it’s not a room, it’s a theater, so balancing the sound and the picture and all the kind of thing is always tricky, but somebody did a really good job, so I think it went very well. CS: There are two major stories running through the movie, Frank’s story and that of Russell Crowe as Richie Roberts, so how did you as a director want to balance the two of them and what was the hardest part of making the movie? Scott: Once it’s on paper, I spend most of my life reading and developing material or on occasion, not often, a piece of material will arrive that I want to do. I get a lot of scripts sent, but for the most part, ninety-seven percent are not that good, but this one was from a friend of mine Steve Zaillian, who bunged this script at me I think four and a half years ago saying, “What do you think of this?” and he was a producer as well. I was off doing something else, but h
