do not talk about fight club. we were doing the kind of film we d all hoped to do. trust me. everything s going to be fine. i thought fight club could be one of those things that becomes a marker for the way that we felt at a certain time. it connected right where we wanted it to connect, and it s still growing, and that s exciting, for me, that s the highest aspiration. in the 90s, you get these trends and these moments that are going to carry on for the next few decades. you have this number of really promising black film makers coming up. women s voices coming more to the forefront in they re writing films and directing films and big blockbusters. it lays the ground work for what we re going to see for the next
he s a fantastic dramatic actor and he s a magnificent comedy actor. i can t think of another actor living or dead who could have ever done that part. by the 1990s, the age of the people who served in world war ii was 70. they were growing old and disappearing. there was a powerful sense of nostalgia. we saw a lot of retrospective looks at world war ii. this is the time when people started talking about the greatest generation. saving private ryan was a film i was going to make some day in my life. my dad used to have his band of brothers from the air corp come over to the house every year and the first time i ever heard grown men cry was at the reunions. it was all about the trauma they had suffered in world war ii.
that film really spoke to me so deeply because it s a single mom with this precocious little kid. and bringing a guy into that picture. i love how much cameron believes in romance. i was so anxious to do one line. you complete me. there were times i read that in the script and thought fantastic. there were other times, is this too cheesy? and i told tom that, and he said just give me a shot at it. if you don t want to use it, don t use it. i love you. you complete me. and i just shut up. just shut up. you had me at hello.
attention to all these characters who are somehow connected, and you only start to figure that out as the movie goes on. i love you, pumpkin. i love you honeybunny. everybody, this is a robbery. you know a tarantino film the minute you see it. it s such a fanfare of a new kind of filmmaker. swingers came out of this kind of docktail 50s nostalgic culture that the people in l.a. movies were part of. so, what do you guys do? well, i m a comedian. when i started writing swingers, i didn t know that it was going to be a movie or a full script. i was just having fun writing stuff that i was getting a kick out of and then kept writing. i don t want you to be the guy in the pg13 movie. i want you to be like the guy in
i think the word you re searching for is space ranger. the word i m searching for i can t say because there s preschool toys present. when i saw toy story, i was just blown away. the technology for me was nice and interesting. but that wasn t what blew me away. what blew me away was that here were new characters. to infinity and beyond! the film was contemporary. it was not a musical. and it was done with all of the sincerity of the walt era. you actually think you re the buzz lightyear? oh, all this time i thought it was an act. hey, guys, look! it s the real buzz lightyear! you re mocking me, aren t you? anybody wanting to study screenwriting should watch pixar movies. i just think they re beautifully, beautifully written. well, if you knew him, you d understand. let me guess, andy s a real special kid, and to him you re