When I read Giles Foden‚Äôs prize-winning, fact-inspired novel, I felt immediately that it had all the high-wire tension of a real-life tale of terror and survival, along with the human insight and textural richness of a fictional thriller–Director Macdonald.
Guardian, The with Kevin Costner and Ashton Kutcher
September 18, 2006 by
Kevin Costner is perfect for this role because he has that kind of masculine power as a leading man combined with being a sensitive human being‚Äîso he can play a guy who is not only tough and capable but also looking inward to see where his life is heading–Andrew Davis
Catch Me If You Can: DiCaprio, Directed by Spielberg and Scorsese in Same Year
September 17, 2006 by
I like to watch movies about sensational rogues, like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Sting, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, because they all focus on individuals who work on the wrong side of the law and are against society, yet you can't help but root for them because they're so incredibly charismatic–DiCaprio
Gangs of New York with DiCaprio
September 17, 2006 by
I heard about the project when I was sixteen–the story of a young Irish immigrant in the 1860s who is placed in the center of the biggest urban riot in the New World. I was so determined to do this project with Marty Scorsese that I actually changed agencies, when I was 17, in order to be in closer contact; bothMarty and I are represented by CAA–DiCaprio
Black Book: Interview with Director Paul Verhoeven
September 16, 2006 by
Gerard Soeteman and I have worked on the script for 20 years. For a long time, we couldn’t get the story to work. The basic idea stayed the same: a group of Jews are betrayed and killed in the Biesbosch and the main character hunts down the traitor. Originally, it had a male lead. And that gave us a problem: we didn’t know how to get him to credibly infiltrate the German command. Three years ago Gerard solved the puzzle: the lead should be a woman. Then all the scenes we envisaged suddenly fell into place.
