It’s Better Not To Know

Anger, Stress, Tension, Depression, Sorrow, Hate, Fear - These Things Start To Retreat. And For A Filmmaker, Having This Negativity Lift Away Is Money In The Bank. When You're Suffering You Can't Create.

When You Get An Idea, So Many Things Come In That One Moment. You Could Write The Sound Of That Idea, Or The Sound Of The Room It's In. You Could Write The Clothes The Character Is Wearing, What They're Saying, How They Move, What They Look Like. Instead Of Making Up, You're Actually Catching An Idea, For A Story, Characters, Place, And Mood - All The Stuff That Comes. When You Put A Sound To Something And It's Wrong, It's So Obvious. When It's Right, The Whole Is Greater Than The Sum Of The Parts. That's A Magical Thing That Can Happen In Cinema.

If You Keep Your Eye On The Doughnut And Do Your Work, That's All You Can Control. You Can't Control Any Of What's Out There, Outside Yourself.

I Have No Problem Getting Financing. I Have A Problem Catching Ideas That I Fall In Love With For The Next Feature.

Building A Set Is Like Building A Place, But It's A Temporary Place, Because Sets Usually Get Torn Down. Kind Of Unfortunate.