I really liked at the beginning how Forbin is so confident and assured and competent, and everybody looks up to him, and he just always knows exactly what to do. Then you just see him unravel over the course of the movie until by the end he’s just this broken person, and I thought the way the movie portrayed that was really well done. … Any time Colossus was doing anything, I just thought it was so chilling. I just had such a feeling of doom through the whole movie.
I don’t know if it’s just my personal experience—I might be generalizing—but I feel like viewers today are a lot more discerning about stuff that they watch. I don’t think you can get away with these kinds of hitting-you-over-the-head messages. I think you have to be more subtle with your messages and let the viewer come to their own conclusions about what these things mean. I’ve kind of lost my faith in science fiction as a cautionary tale.