The general direction seems to be becoming fairly clear to me, but every new piece is a small adventure.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
To some extent, I'm mildly surprised by every new piece, by the precise path that my interest takes.
Every change of scene requires new expositions, descriptions, explanations.
The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.
I think the New Aesthetic is a series of observations. I think most of the trouble people have had with it comes from a misunderstanding of it as a movement.
I think mostly it's the adventure that I will have in making the movie. That's what I look for.
I throw everything I have into whatever story I'm writing - and so there's something immensely gratifying about finishing one piece and then starting fresh with a new setting, time period and cast of characters, getting to see the world through a completely different lens each time.
And almost always there has to be change, change in the characters is the journey - it's the story.
There is a comfort zone of knowing where things are going and having characters in place, but the action gets more and more dramatic and is very challenging to describe.
I think most of the best new work is intended to have much more impact at once.
It is very difficult to generalise. Everyone's adventure is original.