00:00If I may, against my nature, pay a compliment.
00:03I saw you taking care of everybody, and not every producer does that.
00:09It's been a real privilege to work on something like this.
00:11Like, I feel very lucky.
00:14Every movie is a science project, in a way, and it's all these personalities coming together.
00:18What do I have to do to make things better?
00:20Good producers should know every job.
00:22So, you know, you've directed, and you probably feel like after you've directed,
00:26you might have a little more empathy, understanding.
00:30Or less.
00:31Or less.
00:32I will endow your pursuit with unlimited resources.
00:37The money comes from one source.
00:39We're grateful for Netflix having supported this big a film,
00:43with Guillermo at the height of his powers in our 13 years together.
00:46We've never been over budget.
00:50If everything is so easy-peasy, what do you do?
00:54Well, it's not easy-peasy.
00:57There's a lot of moving parts.
00:58So, it's really just dealing with the crisis that comes to your door.
01:02Sometimes things are going in a certain direction, and nobody can really explain why,
01:06and it's your job to sort of quietly just pull it back to a resting heart rate.
01:10So, it's that fine line between being who you are that got you here to do the things that you're
01:15doing,
01:15and then being what that movie needs you to be.
01:18Saul Zentz, the producer, when they asked him what he did, he said,
01:21I consider myself to be a bull roaming the perimeter of the production,
01:25keeping, you know, bad things away.
01:28So, that's kind of what I do.
01:30And then, of course, there's, you know, taking care of the budget.
01:33Taking care of the budget.
01:34That's right.
01:38You're always there.
01:39You're always reachable.
01:41You're always approachable.
01:43It makes me blush to hear you say that.
01:45You never fought with Guillermo?
01:47No, no.
01:47We've never wrestled.
01:49I would lose.
01:50He would pin me quickly.
01:52Really, what I provide to him is obviously support, a second opinion,
01:55if I've got an opinion, or if something's going a little bit off the rails,
01:58and then just sort of keep him honest on things.
02:00We can do anything we want, but we can't always do everything we want.
02:04So, part of the approach is to create a family early on,
02:08and it's important to get to know each other.
02:11It's important to trust people
02:15and know that you'll be trusted.
02:17Sometimes, you know, you have to be more of a disciplinarian.
02:20Like, you know, with a first-time director, you have to be more that way,
02:22and with someone like Guillermo, less that way.
02:25So, when we ask all those things to stay up late and do this and do things on short notice,
02:29everyone feels like I'm going to, you know, pull my weight too
02:32because, you know, I care about them because they care about me.
02:36Can you contain your fire, Prometheus,
02:38or are you going to burn your hands before delivering it?
02:41It's a long process, but I think, again, with something like this,
02:44it's not how long it takes, it's how good it is at the end.
02:52I just feel like the luckiest guy in the world to be able to be here and do it.
03:09I just feel like the luckiest guy in the world to be here and do it.
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