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I Was Not Aware Of How Much I Loved 'canoa' Until I Saw It After Doing 'y Tu Mama Tambien' And Realized That My Voice - Over About The Story's Historical Context - That Narrator - Came From 'canoa'.

Learn From Your Experience Shooting Your Film, And Then Move On To The Next.

I Learned There's An Amazing Unexplored Territory In Terms Of Narrative. Before, I Thought The Unexplored Territory Was The Form, The Way You Shoot A Movie. Now, I'm Learning About The Beautiful Marriage Between Form And Narrative.

A Lot Of The Films I Like Are More Than Fantasies - They're Movies Fascinated By The Technology Of Space Exploration, And They Try To Honor The Laws Of Physics. I Watched The Gregory Peck Movie 'marooned' Over And Over When I Was A Kid.

The Long Takes Process Doesn't Allow For That Many Takes. In The Past I Have Shot Over 50 Takes Of Different Shots. Sometimes You End Up Using Take 64, Sometimes Take Four.