Director Frank Oz Talks 'The Stepford Wives'

[Thursday, June 10th, 2004]
The Stepford Wives director Frank Oz says he focused more on character development than the technological aspect. "What we decided was that, hopefully, the audience was just going to be taken [with the story and the characters] and that if we got into more and more and more detail, it would just open a whole can of worms," Oz told Sci-Fi Wire. "And it wasn't about technology."

Oz adds, "We didn't really get into the details of it, because that's not where I wanted the audience to go. I didn't want to go into the technological details of robots. I wanted to go into the feeling aspects. So, wrong or right, we didn't explain it, because we didn't want to get deep into it. It would take away from the feeling more than anything else. It takes away from the story, because all of a sudden you have a side thing going on here that you address with your mind and not your heart."

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