 When we do a movie with the studios, they wouldn't be asking us to do it, I don't think, if it was a movie they wanted to get into themselves. What you see is what you get with us, so they let us do what we want to do. |
| The point at which we worked with some of these actors, they weren't really stars yet. Nicolas Cage was not a big star when we did Raising Arizona. A lot of these people were also virtually unknown, too, when we worked with them first. |
| We create monsters and then we can't control them. |
| You're doing it to make the character as specific as possible, so that it's a specific individual that you're talking about, not that whole class of people. |
| Maybe there should be less of a mystique around making movies. I just don't think that there's any real mystery there. |
| Some people come out going, I don't get it. And I don't quite know what they're trying to get, what they're struggling for. We have had the reaction where people leave the movie sort of uncomfortable and befuddled. Although that wasn't our intention. |
| If the material is challenging, it forces you to challenge yourself when handling it. |
| It's almost like a genre rule: Don't Open The Box. |
| I guess there's a certain amount of poking fun at certain characters, but that's because there is something amusing about them or about the way they behave, so I guess you can say that that's poking fun at the character. But the character is your own invention, so who cares? |
