I tend to edit some as I go - partly because one of the reasons I don't outline much is that I don't know what the next scene will be until I've actually written the previous scene.
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I generally edit quite heavily. In general, there aren't many scenes that are sitting where they sat in the script in the final form.
Almost every scene, I re-think as I'm about to start drawing it, and at least half of the time I'm changing dialogue or whatever, or adding scenes or different things.
I am not very good at sticking to outlines, and I double back all the time to revisit scenes and change things.
I outline in some detail, but even after the outline is done I often get a new idea that is an improvement, so the outline is a living, breathing thing as well. I also re-outline when I'm two-thirds done, to be sure that there is an emotional payoff from all the plot lines and to be sure the story is as tight as it can be.
When you are writing and directing and producing, there is a lot of stuff to do. I like to finish one; then while I am editing, I will think of the next one.
For me the writing, when I'm going to direct it myself, is really just the first draft, and I don't change it very much; I only change it on average about two lines per movie.
I don't card out my screenplays ever. I just have an idea I just sit down and write I don't edit.
I'll usually see a scene in my head, playing like a movie trailer. After I've written that scene, everything takes off from there.
I never do a full outline, and if I did, I would not feel bound to it, because the view from inside a scene can be different from the view outside it. But neither do I just start writing and see what happens; I am far more disciplined than that.
I edit as I write. I revise endlessly. I don't go forward until I know that what I've written is as good as I can make it.
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