a collection of masks, depicting historical figures in life and what I like to call the eternal repose. |
Call it ''12. |
[By trapping her on the plane with innocent people in peril, the villain] puts her in a very vulnerable position, ... There are decent human beings all around her, but she can't really tell them what's going on. |
A lot of life is dealing with your curse, dealing with the cards you were given that aren't so nice. Does it make you into a monster, or can you temper it in some way, or accept it and go in some other direction? |
After that, everybody-assumed I must be a terrifying person who lived in a cave. We both tried to make other kinds of films, but we couldn't get any money. They were offering us money to make scary movies, so I went off and made The Hills Have Eyes , and Sean went off and did Friday the 13th , |
Alex made the picture fresh, which was important. None of us wanted just to shoot the original script again. Alex took it and made it his own. |
Alex was familiar with the location. It also meant we could spend another $2 million without taxes and union fees. As much as you don't like taking films out of the U.S., we had to do it. |
All of us have our individual curses, something that we are uncomfortable with and something that we have to deal with, like me making horror films, perhaps. |
But I made him the Deputy Secretary for Homeland Security because that added an element of political espionage. |
But in the original script someone who may or may not be an assassination target was identified only as a businessman, |
Everybody's making horror films and, to me, not especially well. I don't know if it's (due to) the corporations taking over studios or what it is. But it really calls for some young filmmakers to come in and just do something from their hearts. |
Everyone from Tom Cruise to Jude Law was talked about for this role - and not everyone was available, and some we couldn't afford. |
For me with all this stuff, both the horror films and thrillers like this, the most interesting thing is what goes on inside people's heads, ... The rest is just the setting. She is sort of trapped in her seat, with this guy a few inches apart watching her facial expressions for clues about what she is going to do and it is just so oppressive. Even when he lets her go to the bathroom she doesn't get long to unwind. |
How about doing the first Wes Craven romantic comedy? |
I don't know where the limits of her range are. I certainly didn't find them. |