In A Movie, You Have To Be

I Think That Gulf Is What Makes The Work Interesting, But As A Creator It's Endlessly Frustrating Because I'm Starting Out With This Goal, This Thing I'm Trying To Create, And Then The Thing I Actually Do Create Is Very, Very Different. It's Always Painful, In Some Ways, Especially When It's Just Finished.

Writing A Screenplay, I'm Like, "all I'm Responsible For Is That Final Script, And I Take Great Effort And Pride In That." But Once I Give It To Someone To Make, I Can Disassociate With It Entirely And Not Worry That My Vision Isn't Being Represented, Because I Understand Fully That That's Not How It Works.

I Lose Faith In Everything Else, But Rarely In My Work. If I Start To Get Bored, I Change It To Make It More Interesting. I Try Not To Take It Too Seriously, But I Also Try To Never Cheat Or Hurry Things Along.

There Are Certain Things In There That No One Else Would Recognize, Really. I See Details Of My Life That I Didn't Even Intend To Put In When I Was Doing The Work. For Example, I Noticed That Every Single Kid In The High School In The Death-ray Is Based On Somebody I Went To High School With.

I Think If You Had Different Artists Approaching The Material In Different Styles, That's Very Different. I Think It's An Interesting Thing To Discover, What's Present In The Work Even When You're Shifting The Styles. I've Just Found It A Much Stronger Way To Work.