It's one thing to plan and imagine what you want on a film, but when you actually arrive and survey the scene, there's a moment of, 'Oh my God, what was I thinking?'
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The last thing you want to do when you are about to film a scene is think, 'Oh my God, so many people are going to watch this.'
I try to imagine the scenes as I'm writing them as if I were watching them play like a film.
A movie is so visually powerful, so overwhelming, that it tends to crowd out how you might have imagined things.
I'm always thinking, 'What next,' even while working on one play or shooting for a film.
There are times when I'm driving home after a day's shooting, thinking to myself, That scene would've been so much better if I had written it out.
I'm developing the stuff all the time. There's a film in my head. I'm imagining a film.
When I watch a movie for the first few times I'm usually thinking about where I was in a given scene, who was next to me, what we were doing etc. But after I've gotten through all of this, when I'm really watching the film itself, then I get moved.
I love more than anything looking at a movie scene by scene and seeing the intention behind it.
When a scene is being shot, it is very difficult to know what one wants it to say, and even if one does know, there is always a difference between what one has in mind and the result on film.
In films, the fact that you can always do a scene again takes a load off your mind, enabling you to strive for perfection, which I always wanted.