00:14I love your Margin Call, and I wonder about the difference from that movie with this.
00:24What was the strangest thing and the hardest thing in going to a movie with just one actor and just
00:3231 pages of script?
00:34Yeah, I think there were a lot of challenges obviously in production,
00:40but the sort of greatest challenge, if that's the question, was the editing.
00:46Editing a film like this together, it sort of breaks all the rules of editing.
00:53Most editing is structured on point-counterpoint, boom to another and boom and back and forth.
01:01And obviously inherent in this project there really is only so many times where you can kind of go point
01:10-counterpoint.
01:10There's only one guy. And so the process of taking this film from sort of a four-hour, almost four
01:19-hour film,
01:20down to something where I wanted it to be, which was this very tense kind of experience,
01:24while still maintaining the space that's needed to kind of communicate, you know, someone lost at sea,
01:34was a very difficult, it was about a year ago now that we were really in the heart of the
01:38editing.
01:39And it was, you know, that's when you started to question, what have I done, you know?
01:44And we really had to kind of invent a new language to kind of, you know, communicate how action, just
01:53basic action took place.
01:55So that was sort of the most challenging, but, you know, it was also pretty crazy just trying to shoot
02:01a film
02:01where there's just one person every day, you know, the same person.
02:06the same person every day, you know, the same person every day.
02:19Did you shoot a different ending of this movie?
02:22No.
02:23The ending has been very specific, it was supposed to be very specific for any one audience member,
02:33but sort of two or three readings on it in its total.
02:39And so that was something that I wanted right from the beginning.
02:44I felt I never wanted it to be sort of ambiguous generally,
02:49but for each specific audience member I wanted them to have a specific reaction,
02:54even though that may be totally different than the person sitting next to you.
02:58But in a way, I think we all probably have a very personal relationship,
03:03if you've even thought about it, about what's going to happen at the end of your life.
03:07And it's been pretty neat for me sitting outside theaters as married couples are coming out
03:14and they can't believe that they each had such a different take on the way the movie ended.
03:19and, you know, that's sort of pretty cool for me because essentially, you know,
03:26that's a married couple that should probably be talking about that
03:29because it changes the way you live your life today, you know,
03:33with what you think is going to happen, you know, when we all kind of, you know, meet the end,
03:38which we will.
03:40So that was always intended to be something that could be read different ways.
03:44Do you think this can be considered a religious movie? Did you talk with Robert about this?
03:51We never discussed the ending with each other. We, you know, I don't, it's hard to say,
03:59but we got into the making of this film and we sort of, just, he was that character
04:05and I was there trying to steer him through, you know, the maze of making the film.
04:11But in a way, you know, we had some pretty intense conversations at times,
04:17but we never specifically talked about emotionally what, I still don't know what he thinks happens at the end of
04:24the film.
04:24and I know he knows I don't know. He doesn't know what I think.
04:28So, you know, but there's, it's certainly, if you're a religious person, there is certainly a version of the film
04:36that, you know,
04:39kind of can play into that and faith and fighting and fighting and fighting until you can't fight any longer.
04:47So, you know, but again, that's about reading the film, you know, in the way that you do.
04:55So it's certainly there, you know, and I, I'm a conflicted religious person myself.
05:02I have different views and different, so in a way I'm, I'm working out some of my own issues,
05:07which is the benefit of, you know, to make a movie, I guess.
05:10But...
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