But the thing with Zadie Smith is different. My producer Oliver Dungey, he liked Zadie Smith a lot and he introduced me to her. And I thought, she's not really the type of writer I would care for, but she's great and it would be great to work with her and then it turned immediately down. She disliked the casting and she wanted to change the story and she wanted to work with her husband. So it's not a fault, you ask someone to enter in my world, she did not.

Source: Los Angeles Times September 09, 2018 18:11 UTC