She is so cold and so hard and so neurotic because of what she's done. She's immensely wealthy - making profits of a Meryl-Made line of clothing and so forth. But she is so deeply compromised because of all of this. |
So much of the work is intuitive. The resistance you detect is just that, a kind of evasion, a sense that too much analysis will inhibit creativity. |
The fact is that if he shifts his stance on the IRA's arsenal -- if he accepts any form of words but no actual IRA hardware -- then he'll be gone as Ulster Unionist leader within two weeks, |
The original version of the screenplay was much darker, and portrayed the central character as more of an Everyman. It was also set in Manhattan. |
The skies down there are so blue and the walls of the homes are so bright, that it looks almost surreal anyway, as if each shot has been treated, ... But that was the reality of the place. |
Then the producer said, "Do you know Jim Carrey?" And I thought, "My God, what an interesting idea!" |
There's almost a fear that if you understood too deeply the way you arrived at choices, you could become self-conscious. In any case, many ideas which are full of personal meaning seem rather banal when you put words to them. |
Well, all these stars have their houses swept quite regularly by people who work in the surveillance security business. They come in and they look for bugs and things. |
Well, there's that girl on the Internet - although this isn't an example of someone who doesn't know they're on - but there's a girl on the Internet who posts one photograph every two minutes from her bedroom. |
Why build New York? Why build something that's known instead of having an idealized setting? Nevertheless, the script absolutely intrigued me. It was most untypical of Hollywood. |