Personal Quote:

[on Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)] I didn't want to make a gimmicky film for no reason or just to do it in one take to show off. But Alejandro's script had the seed of the idea in it and was perfectly written, it reads like one continuous take, where you go into the madness of Riggan Thomson [ Michael Keaton ] and the collapse of his life. So it did make sense. I think it ...