A drop of poison on that gathering snow. That moment in the fairy tale when we know what just happened but the princess doesn’t.
I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.
The only description for Nolan in the script was that he's a very bad dresser. I put on a red windbreaker and every other ugly, ill-fitting thing I could dig out. He was potentially written as a clean-cut nerd, but I wanted a darker spin.
I find 'Fatal Attraction' really romantic. I really like the seduction. Almost every time I see it, I'm surprised when it goes dark. I know that's the claim to fame, but I key into how genuinely romantic it is.
Once upon a time, Sleeping Beauty decided to take a nap from which she would never wake up.
A story is not finished, until it took the worst turn.
I'm a big fan of the Harry Potter books, but I'd love to do one where one of the kids dies, or one of the main characters dies. I love for those things to have a little bit more tragedy.
The old tale of Sleeping Beauty might end happily in French or English, but he was in Russia, and only a fool would want to live through the Russian version of any fairy tale.
