If you think about what 'The Killing' is, it is the theatrical production, not the script.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
To put it crudely, 'The Act of Killing' would blast open the space for the more delicate film, 'The Look of Silence,' to do its work.
I don't think I'd seen anything like 'The Killing.'
TV has a three storyline structure, but 'The Killing' takes on that structure with such ambition.
It's not about the script: it's about who the director is and who the other people in the cast are. Because you can look at a great script and execute it in a very sophomoric way, and you can look at an OK script, and you can execute it in a very sophisticated way and come out with something really good.
Television audiences are ruthless - look what happened to 'The Killing.'
It's madness to hand in a script to a director, leave them alone, and for the director not to want the writer there with rehearsals and the shoot.
The script of a play is not a finished product: It's a set of instructions.
I really believe the form of the film must be in the scenario; cinema is not just added value to the scripting. I believe in it as a totality.
Theater is so precious about each word - not that it's a bad thing, but you definitely never stray from the script.
Movies are not scripts - movies are films; they're not books, they're not the theatre.