De Palma, “I like making movies with women. I like photographing women. It is like being a painter who likes to paint nude women instead of nude men. I just find them to be more intriguing and more beautiful—I think it was Godard who once said that all you needed to make a movie was a girl and a gun.”
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In De Palma’s own words,
“I am a big fan of that ballet and I saw the original choreography on YouTube—I think it was done sometime in the late Fifties or early Sixties. I like the way that Jerome Robbins choreographed "The Afternoon of the Faun" and I have always wanted to figure out a way to use that particular ballet in a movie. It presented itself because in the Corneau version, she goes to the cinema and then sneaks out the back and I said "Why can't she go to the ballet?" I used this particular piece in order to juxtapose Christine waiting for her lover with a ballet having to do with two dancers in a rehearsal studio who are going through their exercises while there is a growing sexual tension between them. I thought it would be an interesting juxtaposition between the two venues of action.”
