I Want To Do My Own Thing,

Story Ideas, But It's Also Musing On Stuff That I'm Thinking About. This Leads Me To This And This Leads Me To This. They're Kind Of Random And Haphazard. Often I Can't Find Anything. Somehow, By Doing That, Even Though I Don't Necessarily Refer To Them In A Specific Way, I Have Some Sort Of Architecture In My Head.

I Wanted To Deal With Someone's Idea Of Their Relationship.

When I'm Writing A Script, Before I Can Write Dialogue Or Anything, I Have Two Or Three Hundred Pages Of Notes, Which Takes Me A Year. So, It's Not Like "what Happens Next." I've Got Things That I'm Thinking About But I Don't Settle On Them. And If I Try To Write Dialogue Before Then, I Can't. It's Just Garbage.

You Spend Most Of Your Time As A Director Trying To Move Forward With The Movie. It Happens On A Daily Basis, If Not More Than Once A Day, That You Are Struggling With Budgetary Constraints. Whereas When You're Writing, The Limitation That You Have Is Your Imagination. So It's Decidedly Non-pragmatic.

When I'm Writing, I'm Trying To Immerse Myself In The Chaos Of An Emotional Experience, Rather Than Separate Myself From It And Look Back At It From A Distance With Clarity And Tell It As A Story. Because That's How Life Is Lived, You Know?