Zitat des Tages von David Twohy:
I'm always coming back with too much footage. Most filmmakers do, but I'm always surprised that it keeps happening to me.
After I script the movie, I have to storyboard it out, I have to budget it, and I have to understand if I can afford all those visual effects or not.
To come up short when you reach too far is not such a bad thing rather than not to reach at all, right?
With an independent movie, it's like, 'Okay I know what I want, and I got to go for it.' I just got to get the A version of this. Occasionally we'll try a B version, but not often. We'll just get what's scripted and try to do that as best we can, so you sort of edit while you shoot an independent movie.
I've learned never to count Vin Diesel out. Just don't do that. And I guess it's because he is a very smart guy. Smarter than people give him credit for.
When you do a studio picture, all the paperwork and legal stuff is already taken care of!
You do a drama, and you are limited by the rules of reality, and in science fiction, you create your own reality. Some people find that daunting; I find it challenging.
I went to Long Beach State, started out as an actor.
