Be aware of what she thinks and then come back to it, because what she thinks is what the camera sees. Years later, the gang wants their money back. I did several spec versions, but no one wanted to make my movie. Anyway, I took a look at it again in the mid-'90s and felt that I never got it right. There was a croupier character who was kind of in on it, a completely anonymous guy, without a single line in the original film.
Nobody knows how they live.
They work at night. I began talking to London croupiers. I wrote some lines and then went to see the head of drama, David Aukin, at Film Four. It took 28 minutes. One reason for the film's success was the excellent work by long-absent cult director Mike Hodges.