Details Magazine Michael Bay Interview

Another interview with Michael Bay is available at Details magazine website. Pretty interesting interview as includes comments from actors, producers, etc about Bay.

Some highlights:

- “It’s a bitch working with robots,” the 42-year-old director says of his movie’s stars. “Ten thousand moving parts and you have to make them fucking emote.”
- “We had a test screening in Arizona,” he says, “and I’m thinking, ‘Nobody’s reacting. This movie fucking sucks. It’s stupid.’ But then we get our highest numbers ever. Most movies get a 65. Armageddon got a 92. This motherfucker got a 94. I’m like, ‘Jesus Christ, will I ever understand this business?’”

- His actors tell similar stories. Steve Buscemi, who’s been in two Bay films, says, “With Michael, you just let him blow up and then you get back to work.” Adds Josh Duhamel, who plays a Special Ops captain in Transformers, “He gets heated up and then it passes. He’s definitely not a prick all the time.”

- And to make them fun, you have to be a dickwad (a word Bay uses repeatedly). Really. You do. At least on the Transformers level of moviemaking. Think about it. You’re orchestrating a carnival of costly effects, you’ve borrowed an arsenal of tanks and fighter jets, and your executive producer, Steven Spielberg, is breathing down your neck to the point where you have to tell him, “Steven, I love you but we’re different directors. I don’t work by committee.” Now the movie posters and the action figures and the goddamn Pepsi tie-ins need your attention. And you’re not going overbudget—you just won’t fucking do that.

Interesting article, can read the whole thing here. Thanks to a site reader for the link.