A film centered around the Second World War with a predominantly white cast would not have the pressure on it that 'Red Tails' has.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore - which is a great shame, but I'd love to make a black-and-white movie one day.
Making a movie with people of all different ethnicity, all different skin color and different backgrounds, meant that the movie can literally play all around the world. It's not just a blanket whitewash film like most Hollywood films tend to be.
If someone were to come from another planet and see the world through movies, they'd think that the world was populated by white men in their 30s who shoot a lot.
Any film I do is not going to change the way black women have been portrayed, or black people have been portrayed, in cinema since the days of D.W. Griffith.
I've always really wanted to make a film on what it means to be white in a country that's getting less and less white.
With the black and white films, one was concerned with tone.
The whole series is black-and-white, so when I went to shoot one of the women I only had black-and-white film with me. She had reddish hair and was a very pretty girl, a nice girl.
As a genre, the noir of post-World War II was based on characters who were weak or repellent, bound to let down us and themselves.
I'm thinking about doing a First World War film.
It's near impossible to make a movie in black and white in the system.