I think it’s about a story that not many people know yet. It speaks pretty directly to our current world, which is what makes it so confronting I guess. It’s a film that is a real ride and it has a kind of truth in it. It’s one that I’m proud of and been lovely hearing how people have sort of responded to it.
“John Williams is a Hollywood icon, and it seems the word was invented for him and has been overused for other people, but I also knew the importance of it to my relationship with Steven, who I’ve known for 30 years, and he’s given me so many incredible opportunities that, not that I ever going to think that I’m going to screw them up, but I just knew that this was going to be one of those situations where I had to hit it right away.”
“I think the main reason why I made this movie was to explore Ralph Fiennes’ interior journey where I have a person who’s in that position who says, I have difficulty with prayer. That’s the core of his job. That is the essence of it. It’s like you saying, I have difficulty believing in the words I write or me, I have difficulty in the capability of the camera capturing any truth. It’s kind of like that.”
“It’s a movie about aging, not just about old age, in that each character in the film is going through kind of a transitional moment. I think this movie for me was a way to explore that and work through some of my anxieties about my grandma’s aging and my own aging and just being faced with these transitional moments in life.”
“It came together because I wanted to keep doing movies the way I love to make them in the genre area, which is for me, the best way I can express myself in a creative and and free way. You don’t have the limits of reality. You can create your codes, and your own rules to tell your story, and you can go as far as the Brundlefly, and everything to express to meet the violence of what I wanted to say about the theme.”
“I think if you were in a room with people, and everyone said this, if in a room with Keith and Mick and Anita and Brian and everything, people noticed Anita first. She was a very unusual woman for that time, very independent, spoke five languages, traveled, didn’t look to the man to talk for her, didn’t really give two fucks about anything.”
“Our thinking throughout the whole show was that we were basic in Donny’s head, and that was a principle that was kind of linking everything together.”
“Here’s someone who had a passion and who lived for it, who dedicated herself to her art form.”
“That was the tall order, I guess, was how we were able to create Truman Capote from scratch.”
