I Had Wanted To Do A Comedy.

Even If You Try To Copy A Film Shot By Shot, You Still Can't. It's Still Your Own Film.

There's A Lot Of Films That Have Relatively Rigid Road Maps Because They Have A Script And Others That Are Less Rigid Because They Have Less Of A Script, Like 'elephant.' The Road Map Becomes More Interpretive, Maybe, Than One With A Detailed Script. Editing-wise, They All Have Their Problems.

Silent Is About Needing To Make A Scene Shorter By Having Physical Things To Cut To. That Way, You Can Manipulate A Character To The Other Side Of The Room. But, If They Say The Wrong Thing, It Might Locate That Action In A Particular Part Of The Scene. It's A Mechanical Need.

Because I Didn't Have Brothers, I Was Always Interested In The Kids Down The Street That Had Four Brothers In Their Family, So I Became One Of Them - But It Was Not My Family. I've Always Been Attracted To Temporary Families. They Tend To Be Lost Characters.

Usually When I Read Something, First Of All I'm Looking For The Story And Then When I Reread It, I'm Sort Of Checking Every Part Of It To See If Every Scene Is Necessary.