It's the perfect car, the dream ... a combination of beauty and technology, |
My dentist said to me the other day, I've enough problems in my life, so why should I see your films? |
My father used to work here, back when it was The Toronto Telegram. These remind me of him. |
People are saying, are you feeling the love now for `History of Violence,' and I say, `Yeah,' and that's a scary thing, because it could get addictive, |
So that means I want it to be deep, not in a pretentious way, but I guess I can say I am pretentious in that I pretend. I have aspirations that the movie should trigger off a lot of complex responses. |
The graphic novel is much more violent. |
The Road to Perdition. |
The way a child discovers the world constantly replicates the way science began. You start to notice what's around you, and you get very curious about how things work. How things interrelate. It's as simple as seeing a bug that intrigues you. You want to know where it goes at night; who its friends are; what it eats. |
The whole Crash thing has been very annoying. I've let Haggis know that as well. It's not a legal issue; it's an ethical issue. And also I think it's just plain stupid. |
There is no point in going to Cannes if you're not going to be in competition. That's my feeling. So you've got to get into it. |
There's a certain intimacy involved. You have to get very close to the person who's threatening you. It's the opposite of what your instinct is. |
This is strangely satisfying. |
We joked about that on the set. There was a sense this was a portrait of a marriage in all kinds of ways, especially under duress. |
Well, we got great reviews, |
When you're in the muck you can only see muck. If you somehow manage to float above it, you still see the muck but you see it from a different perspective. And you see other things too. That's the consolation of philosophy. |