I'm In My Mind A Lot. I

I Really Don't Have Any Solutions And I Don't Like Movies That Do.

You Spend Most Of Your Time As A Director Trying To Move Forward With The Movie. It Happens On A Daily Basis, If Not More Than Once A Day, That You Are Struggling With Budgetary Constraints. Whereas When You're Writing, The Limitation That You Have Is Your Imagination. So It's Decidedly Non-pragmatic.

I Spend A Lot Of Time In Preproduction Working With Authors, And A Lot Of Time In Postproduction.: Editing, Music, All That Sort Of Stuff. Casting. On The Set There's Not A Lot For Me To Do.

And So Not Only Do You Have To Make That Work, You Can't Really Start Putting The Thing Together In Any Form Because Some Of The Shots Are Very Short And Obviously Many Of Them Take So Long, You're Waiting Months And Months And Months Before You Can See If It's Going To Be Working Emotionally.

The Biggest Thing That I Came Across, Right Off The Bat, Was That You Can't Shoot This Like A Regular Movie With Multiple Takes. You Have To, Because It's Such A Protracted Process, Break It Down To The Frame And Pretty Much Get One Shot.