Sometimes when you're looking at your own work, you can't really see, and it's only when you step back a little bit later that you think, 'Oh, that's completely in line with everything else I've done.'
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Yeah, it's odd when you look back at your own work. Some filmmakers don't look back at their work at all. I look at my work a lot, actually. I feel like I learned something while looking at stuff I've done in terms of what I'm going to do in the future, mistakes I've made and things at work or what have you.
I look back on my work and I think, 'Oh, why didn't I do that differently?'
I don't work in a straight line. I don't write with an outline. I write where I can see things happen, and then things get glued together.
I don't look at other people's work because I don't want to be distracted by their ideas.
I don't like to watch my work after I do it because it just - I'll always look at the wrong things.
I don't make judgments about my own work, and I don't analyze it; I just let it happen. That applies to everything I've done.
My 'work' is about seeing not about ideas.
Make your work deeper and better than those before you, and eventually someone will notice. If you don't think the work is better than what you've seen, then go back until it is.
In my own work, I tend to cover a lot of time and to jump back and forward in time, and sometimes the way I do this is not very straightforward.
I never look at other people's work. My mind has to be completely focused on my own illusions.