That's what noir feels like to me. It feels like some kind of recurring dream, with very strong archetypes operating. You know, the guilty girl being pursued, falling, all kinds of stuff that we see in our dreams all the time.
You know, I listen to contemporary music all the time.
And I always had this idea for making a movie about a femme fatale, because I like these characters. They're a lot of fun, they're sexy, they're manipulative, they're dangerous.
The biggest mistake in student films is that they are usually cast so badly, with friends and people the directors know. Actually you can cover a lot of bad direction with good acting.
I hadn't done just a straight-out comedy in a long time, just letting an ensemble do really good character acting, having them carry the movie as in my earlier pictures.
So I like to try to go back and develop pure visual storytelling. Because to me, it's one of the most exciting aspects of making movies and almost a lost art at this point.
I'm always looking for a kind of new musical entity to sort of move into a motion picture venue.
And we've become very doubtful of our information sources, because they're all controlled by these huge multilateral corporations.
I guess what's most surprised me in most of the reviews is that they don't seem to get the noir story in the dream sequence, so they analyze it like a straight noir movie.
But, number one, I think traditional noir doesn't work in contemporary storytelling because we don't live in that world anymore.
However, ironically, I was baptized Presbyterian, and went to a Quaker school for twelve years.
However, I spent most of my time in a Quaker school.
Yeah, I had an idea to make a very scary movie, based on a kind of serial murderer that preys on tourists.
Well, I just think through your career you go through different phases, and I just got sort of uninspired by the whole studio process of making and releasing films.
I've been obsessed with this kind of visual storytelling for quite a while, and I try to create material that allows me to explore it.
