Many of the scenes in the forest are allusions to or recreations of scenes in the Björk music video "Human Behavior", also directed by Michel Gondry. 'Steven Soderbergh ' was first interested in directing Charlie Kaufman's script back in late 1996, when Kaufman was still trying to get Being John Malkovich (1999) produced. Soderbergh's considerations for casting were for 'David Hyde Pierce ' in the role of Nathan Bronfman, 'Chris Kattan ' in the role of Puff (likely due to his c ...[Read Story ]