I Think There's A Vague Sense Out

I've Done Really Well So Far In My Career By Trusting The Audience To Be As Dissatisfied With Convention As I Am, As A Film-goer. You Want To Go See A Film That Surprises You In Some Way.

I've Been Interested In Dreams Since I As A Kid And I've Wanted To Do A Film About Them For A Long Time.

I'm Not A Big Dreamer. I Never Have Been.the Only Thing I've Sort Of Obviously Extracted From The Research Of Dreams Is That I Don't Think There's A Specific Science You Can Put On Dream Psychology. I Think That It's Up To, Obviously, The Individual. Obviously, We Suppress Things, Emotions, Things During The Day - Thoughts That We Obviously Haven't Thought Through Enough, And In That State Of Sleep When Our Subconscious Or Mind Just Sort Of Randomly Fires Off Different Surreal Story Structures, And When We Wake Up We Should Pay Attention To These Things.

If I Could Steal Someone's Dream Myself, I'd Have To Go For One Of Orson Welles.

Particularly, The Actors, To Have Analyzed The Script In Great Detail From The Point Of View Of Their Specific Character. So That They Have A Handle On Exactly Where The Character Is In The Chronology Of Things. In That Sense The Actors Become Your Best Check On The Logic Of The Piece, And The Way In Which It All Fits Together. They Become Essential Collaborators. The Main Thing Is You Have To Work With Very Smart Actors.