The Coen brothers: Of all the directors I've worked with, they're the only ones who have given me the storyboards attached to the script. It was very cool for me, because I knew when I was in close-up or if it was far away, and it also made me know that anything that happened in the edit wasn't personal. Because they edit their own movies, so they were editing it as they went.
One of the main reasons I am so drawn to Hitchcock is that he planned his shots way in advance on story-boards, which he designed like classic paintings (he was an art connoisseur). It's why he found shooting on set boring - because he had already composed the film in his head.
Design is, literally, purposeful planning. Graphic Design, then, is the form those plans will take.
I design my shots. I walk the rehearsal as the camera and say 'this is where I want to be... I want this look.
People who call themselves [city] planners ... draw pretty pictures ... but they often don't get anything done.
Well, what we do is we have a script, of course. But for us, writing is also like storyboarding. It's drawing. And so we will cut all of those drawings together with music, sound effects and dialogue. And we screen this kind of stick-figure version of the film.
I've storyboarded for things other people have shot. So thinking in shots and orchestrating shots is not foreign to me at all.
I have trouble working off things that are too preconceived, like storyboards.
The first thing I put down on paper is a storyboard, like a film director.
When I storyboard, they're just fragments of thoughts. I write in three acts like a movie, so I have my plot points up on the preliminary storyboard.
The work of the director is the work of constructing the shot list from the script.
I have always meticulously storyboarded my films from beginning to end.
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.
You never really know what the director has got in his mind as far as the scene visually and art direction wise.
All my paintings are usually done in drawing form, very small. I make notations in drawings first, and then I make a collage for color. But drawing is always my notation.
I never think about it much, the visual aspect of it, until we start making the movie. I don't really think about it when we write. When we finish, and I start putting the film together, and we pick the locations, I do think about that a lot.
I write scripts in storyboard fashion using stick figures, and thought balloons and word balloons and captions. Then I'll write descriptions of what scenes should look like and turn it over to the artist.
Before we start filming, I have a strong idea of the look and the feel that I want to create, and I'm happy to explore any means that will help me achieve that.
A lot of shows are more script-driven, like a prose script. As an actor, you never see a storyboard.
We ought to arrange calendars as we arrange art on our walls and ask: how does this task fit next to the surrounding ones?
I always scout locations first. The apartments, the railway tracks, the café, the canal - I figure out the geography of the film.
That's the storyboard that we have in the beginning [of Valerian]. It's an easy shot. It's just a spaceship coming in. That's the first layout. On the first layout, we see the timing of the shot and the speed. It starts to get some shadows, and we see that everything is moving in the back.
I actually think storyboards are great. I don't draw well enough to do them myself. I've only used storyboards a couple of times. We used two storyboards in 'Margaret': one for the bus accident and for the opera sequence at the end.
Pinterest has been helpful to my business. Making inspiration boards is really key to developing products. When I was getting married, I literally cut out tear sheets and put my own boards together. Had I known about Pinterest, I would have been able to do it so much more easily.
The storyboard for me is the way to visualise the entire movie in advance.
