Word: requiem
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...role in "Erin Brockovich," the other is that Calista Flockhart will never eat her young), Laura Linney ("lovely, leggy Laura Linney" as she's known among heterosexual males who work in the New York theater, where she got her start), Ellen Burstyn (brilliant performance as a drug addict in "Requiem For a Dream"; wonder if Robert Downey Jr. will be at the Oscars), Juliette Binoche, Joan Allen (want to go back to sleep but can't; confused at the idea of heterosexual males in the New York theater...
...vision, that sounds so pretentious, but almost like a vision of what late 20th-century industrial American life is like. Because it's such a dying part of the economy-that part of New York is almost no longer. So I had wanted to give it almost a requiem feel about it, for lack of a better way of putting...
...idea of blurring the lines between reality and television is in your Harvard film thesis, Supermarket Sweep. How has this idea and relationship evolved, particularly in Requiem...
...break. And there were films about hip-hop, but there wasn't really hip-hop techniques used in filmmaking. I wanted to try and apply that to narrative filmmaking, to sample images with sounds, and with that you could advance the story very quickly. It really works well in Requiem, because it's detailing something that's obsessive, an addiction, and it's repetitive...
...keep the thrills coming as much as possible. I really enjoy entertaining people, it's great thrill when you scare an audience, or you make them laugh or cry. The worst insult for example was when some people found parts of Pi boring and that hurt a lot. For Requiem the people that hate it, really hate it, and the people that love it, really love it. People are having panic attacks and shaking when they walk out. For me, that's what always excited me most about film. When I went to see movies that just fucking blew...