00:01Per me help you find your opening?
00:03Well, I would do this.
00:05I would start with a black screen
00:07and I would put a little speck of light
00:09in the center of the black screen
00:11and I would have the light grow in intensity
00:13and then like the big bang,
00:15it explodes.
00:24Life often makes no sense.
00:26There's something about
00:28stories
00:29that gives a sense of
00:31order and purpose
00:33to the world
00:34and allows us to
00:36live other lives
00:37than the life we're living.
00:42The best ideas that I've had
00:44have come to me
00:44when I have least expected them.
00:46They're always intruders
00:48but they're welcome intruders.
00:51Once you get an idea in your head
00:53it just keeps nagging at you
00:55until you express it.
00:57That's the feeling of
00:59of the idea that it just becomes irrational.
01:02There's a woman sitting in a car in a field.
01:04Now I need to know
01:06why she's sitting there.
01:08I begin to believe that there's something of myself
01:10that I can share with an audience.
01:13If I'm thrilled, that's a good sign.
01:15If I'm laughing, that's a good beginning.
01:19It's the spark.
01:20It's the living with the thing.
01:22It's the outlining of it.
01:24If I'm writing to be the hardest part.
01:26Writing and rewriting for months or years.
01:29she dies, no, she lives, he dies.
01:31The first draft, the second draft,
01:32the third draft, the fourth draft,
01:34the fifth draft, the sixth draft,
01:35da-da-da-da-yada-yada-yada-yada.
01:37Then you begin to build the collaboration
01:40that will help you go on that voyage.
01:43You've got to find the cast of your dreams.
01:45For every character that I decide to do,
01:49I envision memories for them.
01:51I create the dimensions of who this woman is.
01:56Imagine if you were this person,
01:57and imagine if you lived in that world.
02:00You have to think about the environment
02:02that the story exists in.
02:04How are you going to create that environment?
02:05What's the look going to be?
02:06What's the tone?
02:07What's the palette?
02:07How's it going to work?
02:08The costumes, the props, the set design.
02:11Little by little,
02:12and the elements start to come together
02:13and build on each other.
02:14It's electric and amazing.
02:15You know, the thing is becoming alive.
02:17You walk onto the set,
02:18and you smell this amazing aroma
02:20of sawdust, wood, and plaster.
02:23You just sort of disappear into this fantasy world.
02:25So then you have to think,
02:26well, how are you going to shoot this thing?
02:28Because you're not going to shoot a movie chronologically,
02:30so you're often starting the movie
02:31shooting the most dramatic,
02:33most painful, most agonizing scene first.
02:37My anxiety often starts
02:39at about 3 o'clock in the morning.
02:42The wheels have started turning.
02:43There is an excitement and a dread.
02:46You definitely go in
02:47with a very concrete sense
02:48of what you're aiming for.
02:49Then you have to be willing
02:51to throw it all away.
02:52Nothing I'm doing is good.
02:53Nothing is working.
02:54The shot goes up,
02:55and it's not right.
02:57And that's, that's torture.
03:00It's not a big deal
03:01when it's just you and a pad of paper,
03:02but when it's countless numbers
03:04of talented people
03:05who are all waiting around
03:05and the sun is going away.
03:07You're under so much time pressure,
03:09and you're kind of holding your breath.
03:10Tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick.
03:12The pressure is on,
03:13and it's, it's, it's horrifying.
03:14Fear is good.
03:15At least for me, it's good.
03:16The fear of failure
03:18is a kind of octane
03:20that keeps me wanting
03:22to stand on the edge of the abyss,
03:23but at the same time
03:24not plunge to my career death.
03:26It's all falling apart,
03:28and a, and a new possibility appears.
03:35There are those moments when the actor
03:38is sitting there,
03:39and she's doing the thing,
03:40the thing that inspired you
03:42months, sometimes years earlier.
03:46Everyone is quiet,
03:47and the crew's just focused,
03:48and everyone's done their job
03:49to get you to this moment.
03:51Somehow, everything is in sync.
03:53There's truth pumping through your veins,
03:56and into the story that you're telling.
03:59There is no greater moment than that
04:02when you feel that you are really cruising,
04:04and you're one organism telling one story,
04:06and you're all telling it
04:07with each other's contributions.
04:10Nobody's telling it alone.
04:11The sun is in the perfect place.
04:13Like, the birds go right where you could never.
04:15Like, there are moments where you're like,
04:16it's impossible.
04:23Finally, you wrap the project,
04:25and then it goes out into the world,
04:27and you hope that all of these decisions
04:29that you were part of,
04:30that you collaborated on,
04:32it will move people,
04:33and touch people in a way that
04:34it seemed like it was inevitable.
04:36Nothing works
04:38if the themes don't connect with the audience.
04:42They have to.
04:44Sharing stories with one another,
04:46makes us feel less alone.
04:50Everyone deserves to have their story be told.
04:53That's what makes us special,
04:55is the tapestry of who we are as human beings.
04:57To become involved in someone else's life,
05:00that's the idea of what a story should be.
05:03A story should make you forget your surroundings,
05:05should make you forget your agenda,
05:07your day,
05:09and hopefully makes you forget yourself.
05:11can you forget your time.
05:26Grazie.
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