Crave Online interviews Director Tarsem Singh (Inmortal - Kellan Lutz)

Crave Online: Is it interesting to you that everyone talks about your visionary style, but Hollywood tends to take that and ask you to do action?


Tarsem Singh: I like action. I like blow ‘em up movies but my take on blow up movies is not particularly Hollywood. I think me and Fincher in the early days used to call it “there’s a shooter and there’s a director.” We tend to be directors. When you get older, you might become a shooter. You see there aren’t too many different ways you can cut it. Telephoto lenses, the action happens, your actors love that. Then you cut it together and the editor is really your director. For me, if you made your decision up before you shoot it a la Polanski or anybody, it’s kind of set. For me, yes, they like action, I like action. My take happens to be a little bit different than what they like and it’s a tug of war. Do I do it their way? Can I come to terms with it? In this one, I think I could.


Crave Online: Why does everyone still want to be immortal? Have they learned nothing from Highlander?


Tarsem Singh: No, I would like very much to be immortal but immortal at 19 or 20. I would not like to be immortal when I’m holding my catheter. I have no interest in that and right now where I am, I would not like to live forever. I would like to live forever but then.

Source  Via  Twilightish