An Obsession for Style and Content
Writer/Director Mark Romanek Discusses One Hour Photo
By Paula Schwartz
URL: http://www.moviemaker.com/directing/article/an_obsession_for_style_and_content_2735/
Director Mark Romanek made his mark as a
music video director working with Lenny Kravitz, Nine Inch
Nails, Janet Jackson, Beck and Madonna, and he has an eye
for images. In his debut feature, One Hour Photo,
he's concerned with the surface of things. The film does for
photo processing guys what Alfred Hitchcock did for hotel
clerks in Psycho. Just how creepy and harmless is
Sy Parrish, the character at the center of the film? Is he
a villain or someone to pity? Romanek lets you make up your
own mind. Here, he discusses his debut film, putting the comedic
Williams in a deeply dramatic role, and his own obsessions.