- Sometimes you realize in the edit.
- What was in your mind? - Which may be informing you without you realizing it.
I try to avoid self-consciously, like, nodding towards something 'cause it's gonna.
It's gonna be there. - You wanna feel unique and special trying to make your film as original as it can be, but I mean, you can't avoid having this history of great filmmakers.
- No, so it's good to avoid. It's good to try to avoid because it's gonna happen anyway.
- We're here with Ari Aster, director of "Beau Is Afraid." - Yorgos Lanthimos of Adonis.
I love "Poor Things." How did you discover the book?
- It was almost 12 years ago now.
I was just reading in general, trying to find material because by starting to make English language films, like, a whole world opened to me that I could maybe look into other materials.
So I was just reading a lot and I came across Alasdair Gray and I read quite a few of his books.
