How do you shoot a 150-day movie? You shoot it one day at a time.
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I've never done a movie that's shot more than 40 days because I just don't do those kinds of films.
Usually, you can shoot a movie in 10 or 12 weeks.
A movie shoots six months for two hours of film.
I think to do a proper independent movie, in my experience, it takes 22 or 23 days to shoot. That was 'Party Girl' or 'House of Yes.' But now with the digital camera, the budgets have gotten smaller, and the days have gotten shorter.
People don't realize how long hours are when you're shooting a movie.
You do need to edit yourself as you shoot because you have fewer options in a smaller movie. In other words, when I'm shooting a big movie, and I got an 85 day shooting schedule or more, then I'm saying I have enough time to shoot option A and B and C and D for every scene.
To make a film is eighteen months of your life. It's seven days a week. It's twenty hours a day.
You have twenty-one days to shoot a whole movie and sometimes you go into that thinking 'ugh, this could potentially be really, really difficult' and it turns out to be the most incredible experience.
I'm lucky if I find one movie a year that's worth doing, and when I do find one, it usually only takes 20-30 days to shoot.
With fashion, you go deep into a shoot for one day, but a movie lasts so much longer. It's literally like going to summer camp.