I often make movies that involve depression or deep holes of sadness, although there are also these other great things in 'New Moon,' like this epic set-piece at the end of the film in Italy.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
In film, you can have sad endings.
No matter how many times you do it, you don't get used to the sadness - for me at least - of coming to the end of a film.
Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits.
I always have a decompression period at the end of a film. Sometimes it joyful, because you're just happy to be done. Or it can be melancholy.
I always go into a film situation depressed and fearful.
In the past I've been very into the falling part, very into the swimming in the dark, deep emotional water. 'Rampart' I really went into it and it took me three times as long to get out of that depression as it did to just do the scenes. I had to learn to give it my all and then go home and laugh.
There is the melancholy of Europe. There is the romantic malaise. Feeling sad is almost a form of deepness.
I actually cried during 'Titanic'. It was one of the few movies I've seen in the theater multiple times.
I was a slightly melancholy child and I think films were a way of escaping for me.
It's not that we like sad movies that make us feel like, 'Oh, my God, what a bummer.' We like emotionally moving experiences. It's nothing new. It's catharsis. It goes back to the Greeks.