I have always meticulously storyboarded my films from beginning to end.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The great thing about having spent all this time on film sets is that I've been able to watch directors and how they work. I now know that this is what I want to do as well: to tell stories visually. But it's definitely my vision that I want to put across, nobody else's.
If you just storyboard something, you've already planned it, and you're stuck in the limitations of your imagination.
I like to control my films from beginning to end, to write them the way I want.
As I began making my feature films, it was a great adventure. It was about constructing something I saw in my head or I had designed on storyboards and capturing that on film.
I didn't know the technical language of filmmaking, so I said, 'OK, I'm going to do my own storyboard,' because I had to explain to the crew and the technical people what I wanted.
I keep every script from every film that I ever made because it's like a workbook of that time in my life.
I never storyboard. I hate it. I don't understand why so many directors want to make comic strips of their films.
I've never been one of those guys who storyboards every frame, because that would take away some of the mystery and some of the fun.
I think the worst that can happen in filmmaking is if you're working with a storyboard. That kills all intuition, all fantasy, all creativity.
I only make storyboards for action scenes. Once you make a storyboard, you don't film; it can be a stiff move.