John Travolta unsure he will direct again after Cannes debut

John Travolta, fresh from ​his directorial debut at the ​Cannes Film Festival last week, told ‌Reuters that ​he cannot imagine stepping behind the camera again unless he felt a deep passion for its subject matter. "When people say, 'Would ‌you direct again?' - I have to be passionate because it's all-consuming, so you have to love it that much," said the screen legend, admitting that making "Propeller One-Way Night Coach" ‌was at times overwhelming.

John Travolta, fresh from ​his directorial debut at the ​Cannes Film Festival last week, told ‌Reuters that ​he cannot imagine stepping behind the camera again unless he felt a deep passion for its subject matter.

"When people say, 'Would ‌you direct again?' - I have to be passionate because it's all-consuming, so you have to love it that much," said the screen legend, admitting that making "Propeller One-Way Night Coach" ‌was at times overwhelming. However, because of its deeply personal nature - about a young aviation ‌fan who takes a fateful flight to Los Angeles in the golden age of flying in the 1950s and 1960s - he could handle it, he said.

"It was me being overwhelmed with the things I ⁠love ​and my family and my ⁠friends," Travolta, an experienced pilot, said at the festival. Travolta cast several of his relatives, including his daughter, Ella ⁠Bleu Travolta, who said watching her experienced family members work on set "felt like a master class."

Travolta, ​produced, financed, directed, narrated and wrote the film based on a book he ⁠published some three decades ago. The star of hits such as "Pulp Fiction" and "Grease" was surprised with an honorary ⁠Palme ​d'Or prize on Friday ahead of the premiere, becoming visibly emotional as he accepted the award that he said was more important to him than an Oscar.

"Propeller," ⁠which was shown outside the competition section, will be released on Apple TV on May ⁠29. Critics praised the ⁠film with an hour-long run time as endearing if a bit odd, with The Guardian's critic calling it "a rather charmingly quirky and distinctively ‌peculiar novella-sized bedtime ‌story."