And If There's Anything Movies Can Do

Movies Are Details. Movies Are Billions Of Details That Come Into A Certain Moment. So With All The Years And Months And Weeks And Days And Minutes Of Preparation, Then Finally You're Shooting And It All Comes Down To These Moments When You're Shooting, Which Is Sort Of Insane When You Think About It. The Details Make A Difference.

This Is A Good Thing To Say To Film Students. If There's A Story Point That You Don't Feel Right About, That There's A Question You Have - "does It Really Make Sense?" Or, "is That Plausible? Is It Implausible? Is It Set Up?" Or Whatever. Go At It. Don't Let It Go. If There's A Question In Your Mind, You're Probably Right. You Probably Do Need To Work On It And Think About It More.

Modern Acting Is Method Acting, Most Of It. And There Are Sort Of Different Schools, So I Guess I'm Not Really From One School Or Another. I Had A Number Of Different Teachers But They Were All Kind Of Drawing From The Same Pool, Which Is - What Do You Want? What Are You Doing To Get What You Want? And, What Is In The Way? These Are Basic Acting Questions. Knowing The Answers To Those Questions. So You're Talking About Objectives And Actions And Obstacles. That's A Sort Of Shorthand That Gives You A Language.

You Read Something And You Know It's Not There Yet. There's A Little Section Here That... This Part's Good But That Is A Little Not, It Doesn't Quite Work. That Doesn't Quite Work. That's Easy. To Say, "ok, Now, This Is What I Think Will Fix It." That's Harder. And Most People Can Tell You What's Wrong With Something. Very Few People Can Say What They Would Do To Fix It.

Things Either Become Unclear In A Story Or They're Just Ambiguous With No Real Point. So Defined Gray Area With Clarity That Also Works In The Narrative, That's Tricky.