Hootja

What parts of Bryan Cranston's personality changed the character of Walter White?

Hello Don. I noticed in an answer to another question that you said you are a very nostalgic person. The Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki also says he is a nostalgic person and wrote about his thoughts on nostalgia in his book "Starting Point". He says nostalgia is a "yearning for lost possibilities":

“[nostalgia] is something all of us, regardless of age, actually experience…Human history exists in a continuum encompassing both the past and the future, but the moment someone is born into this present instant…he or she has already lost certain opportunities or possibilities, including the chance to be born in other ages…And this yearning for other, lost possibilities may also be a major motivator for those of us in the [animation] industry” (18).

Do his thoughts on nostalgia line up with yours? What do you think of this?

That sounds like a really nice thing to work into the movie. If you as the filmmaker like it then I feel like you should just add it in and not care what other people think. But then again I'm another person so you shouldn't care what I say either.

How many hours of sleep do you get every night, on average? Do you remember your dreams often? If so, have they inspired anything in any of your films?

Hey Don. I noticed in "everything will be ok" during the scene where Bill freaks out near the bus stop that when he starts destroying the sign it changes from saying "bus stop" to "bill stop." That's a really nice Easter egg. I think I was only able to notice it because I watched it on your YouTube channel and I was able to pause the video, otherwise the scene seems too move to quickly to notice it, and I suspect not many people notice it unless they watch it online.

Do many people notice it and mention it to you?