When you play a videogame, you could be a completely different person than you are in the real world, certain aspects of the way your brain works can be leveraged for something you could never do in the real world.
Why do we Fall? So we can learn to pick ourselves back up.
The film that really struck me was Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner. That was a film I watched many, many times and found endlessly fascinating in it’s density. I think the density of that film is primarily visual density, atmospheric, sound density, moreso than narrative density.
You musn’t be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling.
I’ve always been a movie guy, movies have been my thing. I love movies, all kinds of movies.
I like films that continue to spin your head in all sorts of different directions after you’ve seen them.
It’s always a fun collaboration with my brother. I’m very fortunate to be able to work with him. There’s an honesty to collaboration. There’s a lack of a gender or ego in our conversations. And so you can really throw anything around.
Heist movies tend to be a bit superficial, glamorous, and fun. They don’t tend to be emotionally engaging.
I’ve done really well so far in my career by trusting the audience to be as dissatisfied with convention as I am, as a film-goer. You want to go see a film that surprises you in some way.
There are points where you worry that you might be putting too much in and alienating the audience. But, funnily enough, some of those fears aren’t correct.
In Hollywood there’s a great openness, almost a voracious appetite for new people. In England there’s a great suspicion of the new. In cultural terms, that can be a good thing, but when you’re trying to break into the film industry, it’s definitely a bad thing.
You never quite know what you’re going to come back to and figure out how to make it work. You never quite know where that desire to finish something, or return to something in a fresh way, is going to come from. Every time I finished a film and went back and looked at it, I had changed as a person.
Every great story deserves a great ending.
When I look at a digitally acquired and projected image, it looks inferior against an original negative anamorphic print or an IMAX one.
Batman and Superman are very different characters but they’re both iconic and elemental. Finding the right story for them both is the key.
I think there are advantages to different scales of filmmaking. You wouldn’t want to do just one thing.
I think there’s a vague sense out there that movies are becoming more and more unreal. I know I’ve felt it.
I’ve never read Joseph Campbell, and I don’t know all that much about story archetypes.
The only job that was ever of interest to me other than filmmaking is architecture.
The quality of racing continues to excel with starters increasing to 1496,.