I Kill Flies, I Eat Meat, You

My Goal Is To Tell Good Stories. And To Try As Best I Can To Do Something New With Acting. To Learn From The Past And To Be A Relevant Artist. To Make Stories That Are Interesting And Contemporary And To Tell Some Kind Of Emotional Truth.

The Idea That A Film Is Created In The Editing Room - It's Only A Certain Kind Of Movie That's Made In The Editing Room And It's Not One That I Really Want To See.

It's Interesting To Get Older And Realize That Part Of Your Job Growing Up In This Profession Is To Help The Next Generation. More And More, With Boyhood And With Ellar Coltrane And With Emma [watson], I Start To See That Role. There's No Better Way. Nobody Wants Advice, So You Can't Really Give It. You Just Have To Try To Wish Them Well On Their Journey.

How To Make A Scary Movie Human, Take A Movie Like Sinister. How Can I Make That Guy So Real So That The Scary Elements Of It Are More Scary And It Functions As A Genre Movie - As The Way It's Supposed To, You Want To Hear A Ghost Story At Midnight, That's A Good One - But How Do You Fill It Up With Humanity Inside, In Staying True To The Genre? You Know? Does That Make Sense?

There's This Kind Of Incredibly Mistaken Idea That Because It's So Much Cheaper To Roll The Camera Than It Used To Be And It's So Much Easier To Accumulate A Ton Of Footage, That Then You Can Just Go Shoot A Ton Of Footage And The Editor Will Make Sense Out Of It. But If You Don't Have Something Deliberate Made, You're Not Gonna Save It In The Editing Room.