FILMOGRAPHY

When directors complain “Somebody recut my film,” it’s not as if somebody totally desecrated it. It is that you have a rhythm in mind, a certain way that you’re going to tell your story so that slowly, slowly it picks up velocity and then, boom!, it reveals itself. If somebody comes in in the middle of that velocity, while you’re building it, and says, “That’s too long, let’s speed it up here,” well, if you speed it up here, you’re robbing from the end. Everybody thinks that film is made up of little pieces. Actually film is one piece — one experience — and if you change that experience here, you change it, inevitably, there.