The few ... write their plans and scheems by asotiations, conventions and correspondence with each other .... Their professions are often called together and know each others mind ...
We talked a lot about The Best Intentions and how we could shoot certain scenes in different ways with slightly different bits of dialogue and information, so that later on, we could cut the piece more easily and it would still feel complete, even though it was shorter.
United thoughts and counsels, equal hope And hazard in the glorious enterprise.
But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
When projects like a pipeline are imposed on a province without a buy-in, without a collaborate approach, they just don't go ahead. What happens is they get caught up in court, there's court challenges, the project doesn't proceed.
A good expedition doesn't need a leader at all. You are deciding day by day, discussing it in a democratic way.
What I like is having a conversation that gets you on the right page. And, if that means having conversations in lieu of rehearsal - I don't wanna get up and cook the thing before we shoot it but I do wanna know that me and the director know exactly what we both want to achieve, and that we're moving in the same direction.
I love the flexibility of saying, "Today we're making 50-foot paintings, and we're going to have to join hands and figure out how that's going to work." But in the end, it's a possibility.
