The thing that matters is the real effort we put into it and that we did it with sincerity. No matter how experienced you are, be honest with yourself when you are making movies and you will surely find an audience that will appreciate your sincerity. Another Love story with an unhappy ending.
I remembered the time I was transfering all the props for the film by myself five times one evening from my flat to a different location. The next day I had a meeting with the cinematographer, Nelisa ALcalde, who came to leave all the kit. We had to reach the 5th floor in one of the the old buildings on Royal Mile with narrow corridors.
It was heavy, it was inconvenient and the next day we had to film from 4 am. Somehow I got lost in another world. How could I just run out of energy? Allow yourself to get lost in the storytelling.
Nights will become days… Days will become Nights but it is ok as long as you end up with good footage. There will be projects in which so many things go wrong. Some actors may need more time to practise before filming but you cannot afford the time or the set design could be ruined so there is no continuity or the sound could be recorded on the wrong levels so the sound design could be complicated. However, quite often when I first see the roughest cut, I want to go home and start crying and quite often I repeat to myself: I should give up filmmaking.
So I read on, and Neil brought me more. He compared this to art. Suppose that whenever artists drew a woman they gave her three breasts, seven toes on each foot, and an ear in the middle of her face? If this did not start a new movement in artistic expression, then artists would have to go back to school and take basic classes in anatomy.
But I think Neil is wrong. People have been scientifically proven to be inclined to be interested in those in circumstances similar to theirs — and this applies to fictional characters on a screen, too. If going through a particularly tough breakup, watching a film that features a character in the same situation might just soothe your pain a little bit.
Watching a character ace a job interview may motivate you to try and get the same outcome — surely you are at least as capable as him or her. And they came from where I have been. Once a month the sky falls on my head, I come to, and I see another movie I want to make.
The audience is also the toughest critic — a good story that exists in your world may not be the first choice for an audience. So I just do the best I can. I think of it as a great opportunity to comment on the world in which we live.
This is a war that cannot be won, why are we sending troops over there? Well, the only medium I have, the only opportunity I have, is to use film.
There will always be issues I care about. It is. Sometimes this image has its own breathing or tempo. It has to linger, and will linger because you want to have more. It is very instinctive. It seems to me that the more motivated I am by what I film, the more objectively I film. And when you see it the first time you put the film together, the roughest cut, is when you want to go home and open up your veins and get in a warm tub and just go away. And then it gradually, maybe, works its way back, somewhere toward that spot you were at before.
Moviemaking is a philosophical exploration. I invite the audience to come on the journey and discover what they think and feel. It takes a lot of time, and I want there to be a lot of stuff in it. So that means I want it to be deep, not in a pretentious way, but I guess I can say I am pretentious in that I pretend.
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