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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.

When You Get To Be 23, 24 Or 25, You Start To Freeze Up And Become An Adult.

When I Grew Up In The '60s, We Were Actually Dominated By This, You Know, Sort Of Conforming '50s Culture, Even Though We Were Like Trying To Express Our Own Culture, Like, The Dominant Culture Was The Thing That Was Forming Us. And I Think That That's True Today.

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.

Wong Kar-wai Is A Really Great Inspiration. He's Always Referred To As The Jimi Hendrix Of Filmmaking.