Any film I've made, I've only really begun to understand in the cutting room. That's when the story shows itself to you, like a wreck coming out of the sea.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I love my stories being multi-layered, and coming at it from different angles, so that you don't understand the film's true emotional motivation until the very end.
I've cut myself out... I've cut scenes out that I was in and that's when you realize that you've got to make the best movie you can.
As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I'm severed.
In the past I've worked with directors who saw very much their scene in their head and knew exactly how they were going to cut it.
A lot of times, I'll resist the temptation to visually define a movie until, one, I really understand just what the movie's about, and two, until I start talking to my cinematographer.
I leave the story room to grow into what the movie is driving me to do.
I was born into a world in which the most compelling stories are through film. But that wasn't always the case. Everything changes; everything evolves.
I'm working on a few different films and I'm just searching for the right new story to tell. As a director, you just have to kind of like just get through the first project before starting on the next one.
Film-makers must decide what story to tell and how to tell it.
The escape to an unchallenging fairy tale can be very nice and I'm all for that, but film can also challenge you to confront the realities of our world.
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