“I think it worked two ways. One, a lot of people writing about the movie used that as shorthand and it could either be a good thing or they could use it to dismiss the movie like we were a copycat movie or something like that. It's very much its own story. It is a young woman in a post-apocalyptic society, but after that it's just a whole different kind of story and a different journey that she goes through.” PeopleThinkingWayWritingKindTwoDifferentWholeStoriesUseYoungUsedJourneyGood ThingsPostsDifferent KindsYoung WomenTwo WaysApocalypticPost ApocalypticShorthandCopycats Author:Neil Burger
“On one hand it's very flattering to be compared to a big success, and then sometimes it's very frustrating because you want people to see the movie that you're making and not be continually comparing it to something that it's not. So it goes both ways.” PeopleWayWantSometimesHandsBigsCompareFrustratingFlattering Author:Neil Burger