I can't tell if he's completely and utterly distraught over his movie getting clobbered by Johnny Depp, or if he's just drunk. And I like Singer.
From everything I've seen of him in interviews and behind the scenes footage, Singer's very highly strung and socially awkward as a matter of course. The documentary special features on the making of
Superman Returns show that to an unusually clear extent.
Singer
is a very high strung individual and usually comes off as very scatterbrained. He's notorious for coming up with new ideas during the filmmaking process which has frustrated many of his colleagues.
That's why you have a deleted scene that cost $10 million and Singer completely changing the opening sequence and re-structuring the first act of
Superman Returns at the last minute. As John Ottman was once paraphrased for saying, after a while you just begin to expect that at any minute Singer will come in and radically change something on relatively short notice.
For instance, he and Halle Berry never really got along, and their quite vocal argument made the headlines when they were shooting
X2. I think Berry even said during the press junket for
X-Men: The Last Stand that she didn't necessarily mind that Singer didn't come back. Alan Cumming also complained a little about Singer's improvisational creative process several times during press for
X2.
I think Ian McKellen best described Singer this way, to paraphrase, when he was comparing Singer with Brett Ratner, who directed
X-Men: The Last Stand, on the difference between the two directors: "[Bryan] is the type that would stay away from everyone at a party; Brett is the type that would inevitably become the host and essentially become the center of attention".
In other words, where Ratner is very out-going and social, Singer is a bit more socially reserved and yes, awkward. I think that's why he's one of my favorite filmmakers because I can relate to him that way.
