00:00So how was your experience on the set on Wolverine? Was it difficult for you? Is it such a big
00:05production?
00:06It is a very much bigger production than anything I've done before.
00:10So it was quite a challenge to keep a balance on the action and the visual effects and the drama
00:15and try and do them all as well as possible. But at the same time that was really exciting.
00:21Ok. How much is a director involved in Blu-ray production?
00:25Well, the truth is, in terms of the technology of Blu-ray, I don't pretend to understand it.
00:31There are very much cleverer people than me that understand the technology.
00:34My contribution is to sort of be part of the discussion about what should we include content-wise on that
00:39DVD.
00:40And that's where I was very excited to put the extended scene of the memory deletion of Wolverine onto the
00:47Blu-ray
00:48and also to do the director's commentary and put on the previous scenes, behind the scenes scenes.
00:55It's great to be able to give people an insight into how we made certain decisions on the movie
01:00and let them discuss it for themselves about whether they think we were right or wrong.
01:04Do you think about the evolution of Blu-ray? Do you think there is a competition with movie theaters?
01:14That's a good question. I can only speak from my own experience.
01:19I mean, I still love going to the cinema, but I now have twins. They're two years old.
01:23And I don't get time to go to the cinema like I used to.
01:26So, for me, now it's great to have Blu-ray because it's as close to cinema as I can get.
01:32And without having other people talking around, you know.
01:35So, I like Blu-ray because at least the quality of the film is at a very high standard.
01:41It's the closest view from the director.
01:43Yeah. I mean, you work very hard when you make a movie to, you know, make the picture and the
01:47sound as high quality as you can.
01:50And so, you know, in the old days you used to see it on VHS and you go,
01:53Oh, what happened to my movie? This is horrible, you know.
01:55So, now you don't feel that way. Now it's actually really quite beautiful to see it on Blu-ray.
02:01And what do you think about Wolverine's character? Why fans love so much?
02:05I think what people love about Wolverine is that he's not just a good guy saving the world.
02:13He's complicated and full of his own emotional complexity and his own anger and his own...
02:20And he's constantly asking himself whether he even likes himself, you know.
02:25He's like us, emotionally.
02:28He's kind of a larger than life version of most people.
02:34Some days he's really angry and some days he just wants to pull back the claws.
02:39And I found this interesting because when I was growing up, the kind of heroes that we were exposed to
02:46were always these strong, silent men, you know, pale rider.
02:50Clint Eastwood never gets emotional.
02:53And actually, Wolverine is the opposite.
02:56He's very emotional and quite intense, you know.
03:00So, for me, I like that.
03:01Last one.
03:02Do you have some project in South Africa or just an old guy now?
03:08You know, I don't know.
03:09I still go back to South Africa a lot.
03:11My parents and my sister still live there.
03:15One of the things that was quite tough doing Tzotzi is it did so much better than we could have
03:19dreamed
03:19that maybe I'm a little intimidated to make another film at home in case it's not as good as Tzotzi.
03:26But if I find the right story, absolutely, I would love to do another film at home, yeah.
03:31Okay.
03:32Thank you very much.
03:33Thank you very much.
03:34Cheers.
03:34Cheers.
03:34Cheers.
03:34Cheers.
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