Everything I wrote last night, I trashed. Today at work I broke out a new outline, some realizations that the back story was shitty, and began anew tonight, starting loosely with the scam. Then I ended up approaching it like the pilot of a TV series (unintentionally), which is to stage the scenes we see concretely but leave copious unanswered ( Read more... )

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I was Robert Altman's second-unit director, but it wasn't like I was running around getting b-roll while he got the main bits. I got the action sequences, sort of, but I worked with him, or while he watched. I was somewhere between understudy and backup. Obviously the man was still alive ( Read more... )

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Damn. Enie (my advisor) just invited me and parts of my crew to an early screening of Gus Van Sant's new film, but it's tonight. We're still shooting! Way to not have your cool early screening tomorrow night, Gus.