Well, Cocteau had a sort of poetic realism. He liked fantasy but he didn’t like special effects. His films were fantasies that were essentially psychological dramas that played in a real world. And that’s what I was trying to do. I didn’t want the monsters to be rubber, I wanted them to be mental. I wanted the transformation to be sexual and psychological rather than physical. And that’s very much what Cocteau did in Beauty and the Beast and Orpheus. He played with that line between the consciou
Cocteau had a sort of poetic realism. He liked fantasy but he didn't like special effects. His films were fantasies that were essentially psychological dramas that played in a real world.
— Unknown (discussing influence of Cocteau) · Film Comment Interview: The Paul Schrader Interview
Cocteau had a sort of poetic realism. He liked fantasy but he didn't like special effects. His films were fantasies that were essentially psychological dramas that played in a real world.
— Unknown (speaker discussing Cocteau's influence on their own work) · Film Comment Interview: The Paul Schrader Interview