Childhood celebrity crush? Julie Christie

The amount of time I got to spend with Gordon Ramsay. . . . I got to watch him cook, I cooked with him, I got to do a service at his restaurant with Clare Smythe and her brigade, which was incredible.

If you could have dinner with another director, living or dead, who would it be? I would like to talk to Mike Nichols. I would've loved to have met him. I saw an interview with him, it was two weeks before I was going to shoot, and he said he approaches directing the way he approaches acting, which is he prepares, prepares, prepares. And he shows up on the first day and he throws it all away. And he gave me the courage to embrace that.

Who taught you the most, Bradley, besides other directors like Eastwood and David O. Russell? Robert De Niro. I tried to get him to do this movie, Limitless, and combine two characters. That was the first time I tried to cast a movie, even though I wasn't the director, and I went to see him in his hotel room. I I was pitching him the whole thing and then he wound up saying yes, which blew my mind because he was my hero. After that movie, he said he thought I should direct.