When I see the first dailies on any movie, I usually feel that I had no idea how this combination of ingredients was going to mix together, what it was going to produce.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
To have a basic ingredient that can be prepared a million different ways is a beautiful thing.
In the case of Five-O, I believe it was a combination of many ingredients - timing, chemistry, Hawaii.
We're so quick to go to make things black and white, and to put things in their box. But everything is this mixture - and that's what this world is - is this blend of different things.
Anytime I make a movie, I really have absolutely no idea how it's going to go over. I've had the whole range of different kinds of reactions.
Ingredients should not read like a chemistry experiment!
The film is made in the editing room. The shooting of the film is about shopping, almost. It's like going to get all the ingredients together, and you've got to make sure before you leave the store that you got all the ingredients. And then you take those ingredients and you can make a good cake - or not.
Simple ingredients, treated with respect... put them together and you will always have a great dish.
Don't be afraid to adapt new ingredients into your own techniques, and traditional ingredients into new recipes.
Never trust any complicated cocktail that remains perfectly clear until the last ingredient goes in, and then immediately clouds.
We went through all the scenes and they became kind of funny and they expanded a little bit and because it seemed to be working so well in the movie, they added a couple of things later on in the movie and that's how it turned out.