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Mei Actually Met a Ghost — Totoro! 3 Oct 2011 | 12:00 am
“Actually our work depends on how much we can appropriate from other people’s work! Painting, music, films, literature … it’s all grist for the mill. We think of our work not as individual creativity ...
My History Is Burning Up Out There 21 Sep 2011 | 12:00 am
“George Lucas said the most useful thing to me as I was about to do Body Heat. I said ‘George, I don’t know that much about the technical stuff.’ And keep in mind that George is Mr. Technology, right?...
I’m A Good Old Rebel 16 Sep 2011 | 12:00 am
Q: “You were working in a special niche of your own in the late 1970s and early 1980s with Hard Times, The Driver, The Warriors, The Long Riders and Southern Comfort — lean, elegiac films which, I’m g...
Don’t Say Nothin’ Against the Family 11 Sep 2011 | 12:00 am
“I remember being absolutely fearless because I was too young to know any better. I had no idea, I had never tasted failure — or pressure from the studio. You know, that film got made because Sean was...
A Xenomorph May Be Involved 6 Sep 2011 | 12:00 am
“I think a lot of it has gone into comic books, and to me, in comic books, it’s all about the men — and because they were written in the ’50s and ’60s especially. It just wasn’t where it was at for th...
That Terminator Is Out There 2 Sep 2011 | 12:00 am
“I finally realized that the only way I was going to get my career jump-started was if I created my own project and then held onto it tenaciously, like an abalone, until somebody would put up the mone...
Blood In the Moonlight 27 Aug 2011 | 12:00 am
“The best thing about Red Dragon (Universal), the second adaptation of Thomas Harris’ 1981 novel, is that it reminds you how scary and seminal the first adaptation — Michael Mann’s Manhunter (1986) — ...
Our Man In Jakarta 19 Aug 2011 | 12:00 am
“Some of the more didactic critics asked in their reviews, “What kind of film is this — is it a love story, is it a thriller, is it a political story?’ You could say that it unsuccessfully fails to fu...
A Six Demon Bag 15 Aug 2011 | 12:00 am
“The studio wanted Raiders of the Lost Ark, clearly that’s what they wanted. They wanted a movie like that. ‘Can’t you just do that?’ They didn’t ever actually say that to me, but I know that’s what t...
Prisoners and The Worlds They Have Made 9 Aug 2011 | 12:00 am
“We sent Barry Bernardi, who was our location manager, who also served as our associate producer, on a sort of all-expense paid trip across the country looking for the worst city in America. He stoppe...
