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Lester’s personal space. Did you
have a choice in the kind of props
used in there?
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] of becoming Lester’s sanctuary. It clearly
I been taken over by just storage, you know.
Ist its whatever a garage might have been in
[life earlier. We decided to go back and find
tie things Lester would have had if he were
jin college. That sort of became his place.
(eft the cold and rather stark home inside
t house and slowly moved his life out into
[garage. One of my favorite images is that
jcar sitting in the driveway. He’s just shak-
|it up.
What’s your stage background?
What was it like having somebody
like Sam directing this rilm?
|’ve been incredibly fortunate with first-
or second-time directors. I like it a lot
[ause there’s no pattern to their way of
}king. They really are open to almost
thing. So you find that they are willing to
imore chances.
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' us storyboards and how he wanted a
ne to be framed — what he wanted it to
dike, how he wanted us to look in the
ne. So 1 knew all that going in, but I could
'never known going in that his use of im-
s, his use of music, his feeling and mood
^matically was startling.
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give the editors and we went up to a small
room with a recorder, like these little ones, and
we recorded all of Lester’s voice-overs. And I
never redid it. There was something about not
knowing what those images would be that that
dialogue went well with.
"One of my favorite images
is that red car sitting in
the driveway. He's just
shaking it up”
— Kevin Spacey
on his character in American Beauty
wasn’t the campaign, but what happened was,
they kept screening the movie and finally the
DreamWorks marketing people said “What
does that say behind his desk?” So they saved
themselves hundreds of thousands of dollars in
marketing meetings to find a concept because
it actually turns out to be pretty accurate.
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What would you say to those
who get upset about an older
man who is having a relationship
with a teenager?
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Your movie shatters the vision of
a utopian suburbia. If you had a
message you’d like the audience
to take away from this, what
would it be?
Let me play devil’s advocate with the
premise of your question because I don’t
think it reveals anything specifically about
suburbia any more than it reveals anything
about urban life. I think where this film
takes place, the fact that these two very spe
cific families are examined, in no way shape
or form means that we’re trying to say this
is what life is like in suburbia. I think this is
what life is like for a lot of people..
a
Tell us about the catchline, “Look
Closer.”
We actually give our production designer
the credit for that. She cut that out of a fashion
magazine. She was going through a fashion
magazine deciding what should go on certain
walls and she decided “look closer” should be
on my bulletin board at the office. And that
I think that anybody that feels uneasy about
it, it’s uneasiness about the subject, not uneasi
ness with the actual relationship because there
isn’t one. There’s a fantasy life that Lester has.
There is no relationship until the very end of
the film, where he makes the right decision.
Keep it in the context of the film. Those two
people, what they learn from each other, 1
think is breathtaking.
a The movie is about finding
beauty. What things do you find
beauty in?
Sometimes the things that are presented as
beautiful or the things that we think are beauti
ful sometimes makes us miss the things that
are really truly beautiful, but appear mundane.
I think that’s true with people, too.
a You’ve got the Hollywood star of
fame. What is involved with that?
It started with a fan club. They recommend
ed to the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce
that they consider me for that. I didn’t think
anything happened like that until you were
much older ... there’s a certain part of that stuff
that’s a little Hollywood cheesy, but what actu
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