‘That’s a piece of s***!’

Once he had read the first draft of ‘RoboCop’s script, director Paul Verhoeven was so disappointed that he considered throwing in the towel altogether.

However, after some encouragement from his wife, Paul decided to give it another go.

He said: “I remember very well. I was at the beach in the South of France on holiday, and I got [the ‘RoboCop’ script] there.

“I skim-read it and just threw it away. I thought it was terrible. I thought it was completely ridiculous [but I later found my wife reading it].

“I came back and pretty much said, ‘Well, that's a piece of s***’ and she said, ‘I think you're wrong. Read it again because there are many possibilities here for you to do something different and interesting.’ And so then I decided to read it again more carefully.”