Acting Is A Lot Easier Than People

I Still Have Energy And Some Degree Of Youth, Which Is What A Filmmaker Needs.

I Definitely In Filmmaking More And More Find Writing And Directing A Means To Harvest Material For Editing. It's All About Editing.

All Three Parts Of Filmmaking [writing, Shooting, Editing] Contribute To Rhytm. You Want The Script To Be A Tight As Possible, You Want The Acting To Be As Efficient As Possible On The Set, And You Have Enough Coverage To Manipulate The Rhythm In The Editing Room, And Then In The Editing Room You Want To Find The Quickest Possible Version, Even If It's A Leisurely Paced Film. I Definitely In Filmmaking More And More Find Writing And Directing A Means To Harvest Material For Editing. It's All About Editing.

I Make Comedies And I Always Try... I Don't Try But I Allow To Have At Least 5% Of The Jokes Or Have Some Jokes That I Know Will Be Understood By Only About 5% Of The Audience. It's That Guy In The Corner Who Gets It And Laughs. But He Has To Have His Jokes Too. That's Part Of My Audience. Part Of My Audience Is The People Who Will Only Get Certain Things.

A Book Is A Book, But A Movie Is A Movie. The More Faithful You Are, The More You'll Come Up With Harry Potter #1 And #2, Which Are Like Filmed Books On Tape. They're So Petrified Of Turning Off The Readers That They Make No Concessions To The Fact That They're Trying To Make A Piece Of Cinema.