You can`t blame the actor [for a film`s failure]. It`s not math. It`s like catching lightning in a bottle. On Orlando Bloom and his role in Elizabethtown (2005).
I`m proudest of the fact that I`ve been able to make a few movies in the studio system that are slightly unorthodox and personal. But it`s never quite as easy as you dream that it could be.
I just sort of fear that everybody does it now. Everything`s hip, every commercial`s hip. It almost makes you want to do a Mancini-type score, because nobody`s doing it. It would set itself apart more than a pop score now. So the goal was, in this movie, ...
Well it kind of is project to project because as a writer I think you always write to some degree about things that you know or things that happened - but my favourite filmmakers, my favourite movies of theirs tend to be the personal movies.
You can`t blame the actor [for a film`s failure]. It`s not math. It`s like catching lightning in a bottle. On Orlando Bloom and his role in Elizabethtown (2005).
