Andrew Niccol

Directed television commercials for over 10 years prior to his directing debut Gattaca. Experimento Genético (1997)

"My biggest mistake, going back to The Truman Show. Historia de una vida (1998), was that I wrote my most expensive film, first. And you just shouldn't do that. I remember talking to the studio head at the time and she said, "There's no way for a first film that we'll give you a budget of $80 million. But we would give you $20 million". So I went off and wrote Gattaca. Experimento Genético (1997) and made sure it was $20 million. So they let me make it".