When you take something extremely broad, then it is not a work of expansion or work of compression. It's hard because you have to decide what to throw out.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Too often I find that the volume of paper expands to fill the available briefcases.
Some people think it's an easy gig working as an extra, but you often have to stay very concentrated for long stretches in challenging conditions.
The ideas keep going, you have the material, you cut because there's a limit to the space allowed to you. And the space is limited because of some other constraints that have to do with money or printing or whatever.
I think anytime you start relying on a format to get you by you've got weak material to begin with.
Expansion means complexity and complexity decay.
The work requires a moderately large investment in technological and theoretical developments and long periods of time to carry them out, without the pressure to achieve quick or short term results.
I cut up loads. I always want everything shorter, shorter, shorter.
I internalize everything, keep everything inside. I'm not used to spilling my guts, and when you have to do that on film to make a point, it's hard. It's rough. I don't think it's as easy as people think.
What I learned very quickly is that if you get it right in the first two or three takes, it's not going to get that much better.
Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day - 23 minutes - and that's supposed to be enough.