Tuesday, March 28, 2006

...And so it's a hard thing with me when I write movies because I feel that anytime that I try to impose like a kind of false structure or something that would drive the narrative, pull the narrative, like a conventional plot, I feel like it's a lie, you know.

Isn't that crazy? Do you feel the same way? Bureau de Chance was a collaborative project so the tension to have a narrative that would somewhat make things linear was not problem, because it was as though we had this support group that justified the narrative. But writing shit on your own by yourself is another problem. I mean, I am trying to get ALEX to help me with the script. It works. I ask her something and she gives me an idea. Then I take the idea and I just put it upside down and I feel I have created this unique thing that comes from my own mind and I put it in the script because I think it's brilliant since it's justified by the idea that it is unique. It's like if you are making a sculpture and you find this rock and paint it in pink and use it in your sculpture. It seems great cuz it's like this rock just came and you did what you wanted with it and now it's part of your sculpture.