You Want To Know What I Want?

I Think That Shakespeare Had His Male Side And His Female Side Extremely Well Developed. And This Was A Great Quality Of The Elizabethan, All-around Renaissance Man. They Were Not Afraid Of Their Male Side And Their Female Side Co-existing. This Somewhere Along The Line Got Lost. And Then It Got Misunderstood.

If The Director Wishes To Print It, Then You Have A Series Of Choices, Maybe Millions Of Choices Within That Minute-and-a-half, Or 80 Seconds, Or 2 Minutes Or However Long Or Short The Take Is, You Have All Those Choices Committed To Celluloid. I Find That Absolutely Thrilling.

With Narration, You Have To Be Very Accurate With Your Voice. It's A Good Exercise To Do.

The Trick Is To Try And Justify Every Word On The Page And Make Sure My Character Is The Man Who Would Say That.

The Many Many Imponderables Come Together When A Film Opens And For All Sorts Of Reasons It May Or May Not Succeed.