With fashion, you go deep into a shoot for one day, but a movie lasts so much longer. It's literally like going to summer camp.
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I've never done a movie that's shot more than 40 days because I just don't do those kinds of films.
There's a fashion for a macho style of filmmaking. How long can your longest take be? And shooting things in one shot. For me, if you can sort of disappear and make people feel that they are there, that involves massive amounts of work.
You have twenty-one days to shoot a whole movie and sometimes you go into that thinking 'ugh, this could potentially be really, really difficult' and it turns out to be the most incredible experience.
I feel like if you shoot one scene all day long or you take two days to do a scene, that scene is going to be stale.
In theater, you sometimes can only do one or two jobs a year because they're long periods. In film, you can shoot so many. It's quite interesting.
How do you shoot a 150-day movie? You shoot it one day at a time.
It takes a lot of time and a lot of energy and a lot of focus and dedication to do a film, and it's just not worth it if you're going to be miserable for even a day.
When you shoot a film, it takes six months, and it's very important keep the morale of the crew up top, all the time, and keep them on their toes, and keep them enthusiastic.
Usually, you can shoot a movie in 10 or 12 weeks.
I'm lucky if I find one movie a year that's worth doing, and when I do find one, it usually only takes 20-30 days to shoot.