Bill Murray is not the kind of guy you just call up and ask to be in your film. The Ghostbusters veteran is at the point in his career where he calls the shots, and makes it a nightmare in the process, apparently.

Murray has been known to have a rather unorthodox way of choosing projects and uses a mysterious 1-800 telephone system to screen pitching calls from directors and writers, but director Theodore Melfi has reiterated how difficult the process can be while trying to rope the 64-year-old actor into a new project, St Vincent.

The nuts and bolts is (Murray) has no agent and manager, as everyone knows. You just call the 1-800 number. And I left, I don’t know, a dozen messages. It’s not his voice on there. It’s a Skytel voicemail with a menu. You have to record the message and send the message. It’s so confusing. I think if you can get through that and believe in it, he might call you back.

“Two or three weeks after that, my phone rings and he goes, ‘Ted? It’s Bill Murray. Is this a good time?’

I pull over and he goes, ‘Listen, I got this script of yours and I don’t know who you are. I don’t Google people. I don’t know who you are, what you do. Tell me about yourself.’ So that was 20 minutes of me stammering around trying to tell Bill Murray who I am.

Melfi goes on to describe how Murray asked to meet the director with little notice, and continued to drive around town to some small diners before heading back to Murray’s home. It’s all pretty crazy, and sounds like exactly what we’d expect from Mr. Murray himself.

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