'Birdman' is basically 'All About Eve' - the 1950 comedy about rehearsal rivalries in a Broadway show, and another Best Picture laureate - reimagined as a Batman suicide mission. The movie couldn't be actor-ier.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If I didn't do 'Batman,' 'Birdman' wouldn't have happened.
'Birdman' came from a very beautiful side of me, from a part of honesty and surrender about things.
There's a million jokes about what's going on with Batman and Robin. It's a classic thing to call out the homoerotic nature of the men's adventure show.
I'm not into superhero movies, but I love cartoons. Tweety bird is my favourite.
I thought 'Fight Club' was great as David Fincher's version.
'Batman Begins' came out and it was really successful, and it had gritty naturalism. And suddenly... I can't tell you how many movies I was pitched where it was, 'We want to do what you did with 'Batman' but with 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,' or whatever.
People said that 'Fight Club' would be impossible to turn into a movie, but I think David Fincher loved that challenge.
No question that 'Birdman' is a breathtaking technical achievement, not a stunt. Shot in 30 days after a long rehearsal period, with the actors' and the camera's movements calibrated to the inch and the millisecond so the action flows smoothly, the picture has the jagged energy of a long guerrilla raid choreographed by Bob Fosse.
Mike Nichols asked if I would do The Birdcage. Mike and I are dear friends but he had never offered me a feature role in a movie. My television career opened other doors for me.
You don't get bored with stuff like 'Birdman.'