For All The Boredom The Straight Life

Once You're Directing, You're Kind Of In A Certain Mode, Where You're Taking Whatever Is On The Page And Forming It Into The Film That You Think It Might Want To Be. So Whether It's My Writing Or Not, I Still Try To Work With It In The Same Way.

I Have This New Theory About Films. It's Almost Like Astrology, Where If We Started On A Tuesday The Film Will Be Different Than If We Started On A Wednesday. Not Because Of The Planets. It's That Sometimes You Start With The Wrong Balance And The Whole Thing Gets Messed Up.

If You Put Up Posters Around Town For High-school Kids, High-school Kids Will Come. If You're Casting Politicians, You Can't Put Up Posters And Have Politicians Come Down.

The Rules Of Suspense Are That You Do Know, And You Just Don't Know When. In The Hitchcock Rules Of Suspense, You Are Supposed To Know That There Is A Bomb On The Bus That Might Blow Up, And Then It Becomes Very Tense - But If You Don't Know That There's A Bomb And It Just Blows Up, Then It's Just A Surprise.

I Try To Shoot The First Rehearsal Because People Are More Spontaneous. People In Real Life Don't Really Know Where They Are Going To Be Either Positioning Themselves Or How They Will Be Saying Their Words. When People Goof During The First Take, It Usually Looks Realistic.