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.
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 am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.
Once upon a time, Sleeping Beauty decided to take a nap from which she would never wake up.
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.
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.
