On 'Senna,' it got to the point where there was so much footage that our first editor had the wild suggestion that we only use the archive.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Hopefully, when people see 'Senna', they will understand why this inspirational story needed to be told, why it had to be made as a movie for the big screen, and why it is a film for everyone.
My team and I used the actual footage to create a three-act story of the life of Ayrton Senna. There are no talking heads and no voiceover. Senna narrates his own epic, dramatic, thrilling journey.
For the longest time, the way that I had understood 4chan was this idea that the lack of an archive made the content really ephemeral, and it took me a while, but I finally realized that that's just totally wrong.
We're all creating an archive of our own lives, whether we're aware of it or not.
Now everyone takes it for granted that you can look up movie reviews, track locations, and order stuff online. I wish there was a way we could take it away from people for a day so they could remember what it was like without it.
I was spoiled by theater, where there is no editor.
I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
I'm a big fan of editing and keeping only the interesting bits in.
With everything that I've done with YouTube and podcasts for so many years, it's been: you can record it, edit, and then upload that day. With the book and documentary, it's been such a longer process.
We were working on 'Senna' for a long time before we were fully financed, so we didn't actually have an editor for a while.