When Silence of the Lambs did well commercially it was more than anything. My partner Ed Saxon and I were just so relieved that finally we had made a movie that had made some money!
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I think one of the things that was a huge surprise to everyone with 'Silence of the Lambs' was that that was an Oscar-winning horror movie. It struck such a nerve with audiences that it was a very particular, special experience.
I've seen 'Silence of the Lambs,' like, fifty or sixty times. That's my favorite movie of all time.
For me, I loved it. I only want to make silent movies now.
And Silence of the Lambs is a really smart book.
The thing that runs through the British film industry even today is a lot of unsung movies are financially the bigger ones. Even though they weren't always the greatest of movies, something in them was very potent which people loved.
Silent films were, I think, more different than we know to sound films. We think of it as simply that we added dialogue and in actual fact I think it was an entirely different art form.
I don't think that Slaughterhouse-Five was successful movie material. In fact, Vonnegut's books mostly I don't feel are movie material.
The only film I ever made for money was something called 'Music From Another Room', which I really didn't like.
All of the silent films had live music accompaniment, so it's actually a very rich period in music.
The movies I made early on may not have been great, but they were all commercially successful.