Andrew Dominik (b. 1967) is a New Zealand-born Australian film director. He has lived in Australia since he was 2 years old and graduated from Melbourne's Swinburne Film School in 1988to_watch2&content=director&type=story&articleID=VR1117792063" target="_blank">http://stage.variety.com/index.asp?layout=10_to_watch2&content=director&type=story&articleID=VR1117792063.
His career in films began in 2000 when he directed _Chopper based on notorious Australian criminal Mark Brandon Read, starring Eric Bana and Vince Colosimo. Chopper received blank">generally positive reviews, and Bana was praised for his portrayal of Chopper.
His next film was _The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, starring Brad Pitt and Casey Affleck. Despite being completed in 2005, The Assassination was delayed from its 2006 release and was released in 2007.
It was impossible to make a film without a movie star, but it's very difficult to find a part you can cast one in that doesn't seem like miscasting.
Making movies is hard. If you can avoid working you should do it. Ridley [Scott] can't take more than two weeks between movies or he starts going bananas. I don't understand those guys at all. You have to get up at five o'clock in the morning, it's political, and you feel like you're failing 90 per cent of the time. It's a tough job.
