![]() ![]() It just seemed natural to me that that need and that hope would spread like wildfire. I needed him to do something heroic, and I thought there was nothing more heroic than creating heaven for your dying mother. I thought there was no way to avoid that. Did it come out of that same desire to go away from the status quo? There's that part of it, and then it goes in this big direction with the creating religion aspect. Those are the things I get most excited about, taking really solid, big ideas, and concentrating on how that would affect the smallest, least significant person in that world. Yeah, well those are ideas I'm usually drawn to, big studio ideas but done in a very small, non-studio way. Can you talk about bringing it away from high-concept in tone, if not necessarily in plot? There's a fine line in this between a high-concept comedy and coming from a darker place. ![]() I had gotten bored of comedy because it was what I did in my early 20s mostly. I had ben working on a horror film before that, I had been working on an adaptation of Dostoevsky novel. When I sat down to write this it was like opening up the floodgates. Yeah, I had kind of gotten bored of comedy for a while, which I think was a good thing. ![]()
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