There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
What I'm doing is making an action-adventure film of mythic proportions.
Since the Greek myths, the greatest stories are premised on the idea of, 'A stranger arrives.'
I love the notion of the feckless sort of knight in tarnished armor who would love to fill the shoes of the legendary hero but just can't. And then find a moment when they do. And I love the idea that there's a myth waiting for each of us to occupy.
Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
'Warcraft' by its very nature is epic in scale.
No one hit home runs the way Babe did. They were something special. They were like homing pigeons. The ball would leave the bat, pause briefly, suddenly gain its bearings, then take off for the stands.
But Gladiator is one of my favourite adventures because I really loved going into the world. I loved creating the world to the degree where you could almost smell it.
Classical heroes are usually much larger than life. They're not quite human beings. They're somehow larger than human scale.
I can't be a legend yet. I'm not dead.
When you've experienced the real Marilyn, it's difficult to watch a movie about her.' I didn't want to have the memories of my experience tarnished in any way.
I think the story of DiMaggio was alluring precisely for its impossibility.
You know when Hollywood does a great big blockbuster that really wraps you up in a world, and lets you believe in extraordinary things that move you in some way, in an almost operatic sensibility? That to me is the most fun I have at the movies.
My mother and father were both much more remarkable than any story of mine can make them. They seem to me just mythically wonderful.
Everybody's life has some mythical quality. You struggle against obstacles, you fight to get to a higher level and there are great loves.
The beautiful thing about 'The Strain Trilogy' is the ability to move from gore to high fable to creeping dread to domestic drama to unbearable suspense to the uncanny and on and on. The epic journey is designed to support these swings in mood, and that complements my tastes, which are wide-ranging.
