I did a film that I shot in 24 hours that was self-financed for $5,000. It was a feature called Looking For Jimmy that I shot with a bunch of friends. I spent eight months editing because we had 24 hours of footage that made no sense and I learned a lot about directing while editing that film.
I think it’s obsessions that a lot of people share, but they don’t dare to talk about openly.
It’s easier for Europeans to give money to a movie that says a blow job is what brought down American democracy.
I’m a very direct person and, sometimes, when I want something, I will push it until I get it. But, it’s OK. It’s not as bad as some people. When I have an idea in my head, I’m pretty stubborn.
My experience is that relationships can be difficult, hard work. I love to be in a relationship.
I think some people, when they get a certain ego, they lose sense of whatever.
People have their faults, but it doesn’t prevent you from loving them.
Our society is so much about fidelity being this thing that’s sacred, and people are miserable. They’re suicidal. It brings more depression than anything else on earth, probably. Sorry to say that, guys.
I talk a lot. I express a lot of my feelings verbally.
For Europeans a president having an affair, especially in France, is a joke. No one cares, it would never bring this kind of trouble to a country.
I love making movies. I love writing. I love acting. I love it, and I feel really blessed to be able to actually make a living with something I love doing.
It’s definitely easier for a woman to do a romantic comedy than a war movie. It’s assumed a woman doesn’t have a sense of what action is.
The way I work is that I never let people do an assembly. I don’t like it because it shapes the film in a way that I can’t really control. To me, editing is making the film and it’s a huge process and editors are under-rated.
I don’t like to be overly directing people either. I tell them what I want and I tell them when it’s wrong. I tell them no, that’s not what I want. I want it more like this or more like that. I’m pretty direct with everyone, and I treat everyone the same which might be good.
I would assume that there is a greater amount of joy for you in being able to write and help produce your own stuff and make a decent living, but not get rich versus always doing the other stuff that you don’t write, and make more money.
I’m dreaming about making movies for eight weeks, because it’s a luxury. But time is money. That’s the reality.
In real life, when you speak with each other you overlap each other, so you can’t fake that. Like especially when you have no cut. In a regular film when you want people to overlap you cut it that way. It’s mixing and editing.
I think anyone who has had a fight and who’s a very good observer of the situation and people’s behavior is capable of writing a fight. But you do start thinking about writing during the fights that you have with your partner.
Basically, editing is done in rehearsal and in the writing process and in the acting, so it’s very, very tricky, very, very tricky.
I avoid confrontation. When I’m on set I never snap at anyone. I don’t have a temper.