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“That’s just how I go about things.
But then look at a film likeHereditary.
Man, it’s brutal, but it’s so good.
The Witch, by Robert Eggers; no laughs in that.
It’s just two very different ways of looking at it,” he tellsGamesRadar+.
I hate when I’m sitting with an audience, and there are just long periods of silence.
I’m like, ‘You guys should be having fun.
I’m a stepparent and it’s a big deal.
All of it is in the film.
“We don’t really argue that much, we’ve actually got a really good relationship.
All the creative stuff came from my life; we both write and draw.
She honestly helps me with my scripts sometimes.
And I’m like, how did you get this smart?!'”
“All the yelling and crying and stuff, though, nah, that doesn’t happen.”
What about running away from a humongous spider?
“I have, actually, ‘cause I live in Australia.
We have spiders as big as a hand in this country, they’re horrible.That’sbased on reality.”
It’s supposed to start small and then get bigger and bigger and bigger.
It’s a big part of the narrative.’
That’s the way it had been designed.
All throughout my career I’ve done it," he notes.
It wasn’t a problem.
So the scene actually wasn’t a part of the film at first.
I just took it and inserted it as a flash forward."
He pitches up, only to find Helga confused as to why he’s there.
“The idea that even the audience would be like, ‘Is she in on this or something?
“But yeah, it’s a cool way to open a giant spider movie.
It’s actually one of my favorite scenes.”
“Exposition is the death of any storytelling.
I don’t have to say anything.”
“I can do whatever I want,” he says.
I could do that.
I can do that.
Nobody’s gonna question it.
It’s just total justification from that opening sequence.”
“It felt like a cross between an intergalactic octopus, a Lovecraftian thing, or a spider.
So to me, that black, reflective thing was always really interesting.”
“Remember I Am Legend?
They just had digital vampires,” he says.
It’s just not really scary.
“I got into this to point a camera at things.
It’s really awesome.
When it interacts with a doorframe or when some water splashes off it stuff you might’t anticipate.
That’s all cool.
But that’s the fun of filmmaking.”
He explains: “I like the restriction of space, I like restrictions in general.
Restriction in budget forces you to think creatively.
Restrictions in space force you to think in interesting ways in terms of your action blocking.
That’s as restrictive as you get.
I even think I had Ryan scream, ‘Get away from her!’
at one point,” he laughs.
“I’m disgustingly derivative when it comes to my filmmaking.”
So if Sting is… Alien, in a sense, is Charlotte Ripley?
Most other characters, he assures, are fair game, though.
They’d never let you make another film," cackles Roache-Turner.
“I’m still getting guff from people going, ‘How could you kill the cat?
The cat was very happy.
It was a very well-treated animal.
Okay, maybe hes here to traumatize you a little.
Sting releases in UK cinemas on May 31.
