Yeah, 'Requiem for a Dream' - it'll put you off a lot of things, that film, that's for sure.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Any film that supports the idea that things can be changed is a great film in my eyes.
When you come out of the theatre and you don't even talk about that film or remember it, then it disappoints me.
Film, as far as I'm concerned, is my area of artistic endeavor, so I never think of a movie that gets released as being all done-it's just when they took it away from you.
I've never fallen into what I consider to be a trap of trying to figure out something analytically that could be a very popular film. I would hope my enthusiasm could match up with something with that potential.
'What Doesn't Kill You' is a really great movie that was little seen but, I think, is one of my personal favorites.
There's something very dreamlike about film, and I will always be very fascinated by that, and I'm always tempted to go in that direction.
There was one film that I really wanted. This was a long time ago; it was a film called 'Fracture.' Ryan Gosling ended up doing it with Anthony Hopkins. It wasn't a giant box-office success, but I really enjoyed the script, and I enjoyed the character. I got pretty close and was kind of disappointed it didn't go my way.
Every time I do a movie, I think it's going to be a huge hit.
Ah, 'The Departed' is really good.
If I dream that I'm directing, it's not a film, it's like a commercial for cotton candy, and I've got four feet of cotton candy all around me that I've got to break through, like a brick wall or a fortress.