rdj interview
Jun. 7th, 2008 10:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
amezriWhile looking for interviews mentioning the amount of improv that occurred during shooting, I found this interview. I loved these bits:
When I was in my 20s, you train for six weeks and you look good for the next six years. Now, I train for six months and I look good for six minutes.
I think audiences, myself as a movie lover, you forgive a lot. Look at the movies we love and look at the schmucks and bitches people are before the turn, act two or the resolution. You never want them to change entirely because part of the aspect of that aggression, drive or that wit is ultimately what comes to bear at the end. From the little I know about storytelling that seems to be useful.
Sometimes, you think [someone] is hot, smart and cool. And then you go on set and she's just talks like a wench and you think, "I can't believe I got to spend the next couple of months with this bitch." Gwyneth was a very corrective experience for me.
We're writing all this stuff down on this huge cue card and Matty, the poor DP, goes, "I have eight minutes of light. Are you guys partying with your improv over there?" I'd go, "This is the scene we had. Fergus and Ostby wrote this pretty cool scene." We used half of it but we're doing this hodge podge and putting it up on this piece of cork board and Matty the DP goes, "I see his eyes moving." I go, "Cut! Props? Sunglasses, please."
About his Hulk cameo: I'm so fucking pissed off. I went and did a scene for two hours which they're going to run during the end credits in "Hulk" and everyone's like, "So, your role in 'Hulk'…" I did it as a favor to these guys at Marvel. They're really cool but I have to talk about it every fucking day. But they're smart because they get that you're saying "Hulk" when we're talking about "Iron Man." They know what they're doing.
The interviewer asked what movies of his people should see if they'd never seen him in anything before. He replied: I would start in the order of which I was making films. I don't know. That's probably something I should spend more time thinking about. I would start with kids seeing "The Shaggy Dog." I just contradicted myself.
When I was in my 20s, you train for six weeks and you look good for the next six years. Now, I train for six months and I look good for six minutes.
I think audiences, myself as a movie lover, you forgive a lot. Look at the movies we love and look at the schmucks and bitches people are before the turn, act two or the resolution. You never want them to change entirely because part of the aspect of that aggression, drive or that wit is ultimately what comes to bear at the end. From the little I know about storytelling that seems to be useful.
Sometimes, you think [someone] is hot, smart and cool. And then you go on set and she's just talks like a wench and you think, "I can't believe I got to spend the next couple of months with this bitch." Gwyneth was a very corrective experience for me.
We're writing all this stuff down on this huge cue card and Matty, the poor DP, goes, "I have eight minutes of light. Are you guys partying with your improv over there?" I'd go, "This is the scene we had. Fergus and Ostby wrote this pretty cool scene." We used half of it but we're doing this hodge podge and putting it up on this piece of cork board and Matty the DP goes, "I see his eyes moving." I go, "Cut! Props? Sunglasses, please."
About his Hulk cameo: I'm so fucking pissed off. I went and did a scene for two hours which they're going to run during the end credits in "Hulk" and everyone's like, "So, your role in 'Hulk'…" I did it as a favor to these guys at Marvel. They're really cool but I have to talk about it every fucking day. But they're smart because they get that you're saying "Hulk" when we're talking about "Iron Man." They know what they're doing.
The interviewer asked what movies of his people should see if they'd never seen him in anything before. He replied: I would start in the order of which I was making films. I don't know. That's probably something I should spend more time thinking about. I would start with kids seeing "The Shaggy Dog." I just contradicted myself.
