From Friday to now, we're counting about $1 million lost in terms of revenue. We're giving compensation as well and there are cancellations.

People are very upset. Many made holiday plans and have had to cancel them, or they are here and not getting their rooms cleaned. We only have 200 managers working to keep things going.

They're really working hard to get an agreement as soon as possible.

What we want to do is concentrate on coming to an agreement before Christmas. It's Christmas time. People want to celebrate.

Foxes was a movie that didn't do a lot of business but it didn't do too badly critically and eventually they offered me other things. The interesting thing was that next I tried a film called Star Man, which Michael Douglas was producing.

I was watching Monster's Ball, which is a fabulous movie. It's just a little gem: beautifully shot, and shot in a way I never would have done. It made me feel very old, really, because it wasn't eccentric for its own sake, it was just very original.