Woody Allen and Ewan McGregor on the set of Cassandra's Dream Courtesy of The Weinstein Company

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Writer/director Woody Allen returns to his darker impulses in Cassandra's Dream, a London-based crime thriller that explores what a couple of poor brothers will do to get rich (or at least, get by) and what their wealthy uncle will do to keep from becoming poor, or worse. Comparisons will inevitably be made to Match Point, Allen's critically acclaimed 2005 drama about the whims of fate and luck, but this time the onus is less on the tensions between men and women and more about how far family loyalties can be stretched before they snap. Premiere spoke to the director in New York City, where he's currently in the mixing room for his next film, a romantic comedy starring Scarlett Johansson and Javier Bardem called Vicky Cristina Barcelona.

PREMIERE: So what are you working on today?
WOODY ALLEN: Today, I'm doing a certain amount of interviews for the opening of the film, because I'm here and available and I want to be cooperative with the people who are distributing it.

Are you finished mixing and editing Vicky Cristina Barcelona?
I'm done with the editing of it, but I'm not done with the mixing. We're actually in the midst of mixing now and color correcting, but the actual cutting of the film is done.

I read somewhere recently that Steven Spielberg always does five passes on his pictures — how many cuts do you do?
I think we do one cut, and then you finesse it. I don't re-cut the whole picture, I may change a scene, shorten a scene, take out a scene and then put it back in later, but basically the first cut of the film is the film.

So you're almost to the point where you'll never see the film again, since you don't tend to revisit your films.
I will have to see it when I color-correct it. I won't be seeing it with sound, but I will check the mix one time and once the mix is finished that will probably be the last time that I hear the picture, and then I'll color-correct it and then I'm finished with it. I'll have seen it a hundred times.