What I think happens today is that a lot of filmmakers look at other films that are retro pieces, like L.A. Confidential, and say, oh, that's period. We didn't want to do the stereotypical stuff.
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I'm something of a history buff. It's deliberate that a lot of my films have been period pieces.
It's deliberate that a lot of my films have been period pieces.
You know, I find it very strange when movies that I made that were just excoriated - I mean that I was just vilified for - are now looked at as classics.
I offer originality: you don't know what my films are like until you go to them. I think that's the reason I've been getting all this attention.
In the 90's action pictures were all the rage. As a woman, I was fed up with them and I initially thought that the script was just another action film dressed up as a period piece.
Everyone relates differently to contemporary stuff. They rely on you to do the research for a period film.
I wanted to make my sophomore film as different as possible. I didn't want to be pigeonholed. I didn't want to be identifiable.
I have this embedded faith in the process through which films of a certain type get discovered on longer timelines.
Other filmmakers make their movies and put them out and that's that. For me, for some odd reason, it goes deeper than that.
You look back on films sometimes and if they have not been as all-out successful as you anticipated you try to find reasons why maybe it didn't come off for audiences as well as you would have liked.
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