00:12what's behind that silver door you'll find out
00:18soon enough
00:26journey and memory are such a big part of everybody's life especially filmmakers lives
00:31but within the stories you've told especially recently uh invitation destroyer even yellow
00:37jackets and especially this it's about the power of memory and how we remember how we do things
00:42could you talk about that thematic within this both as a director but also looking at the story
00:47elements putting it together sure i love that question i think that that's a huge driver for
00:54the character of pepper in in this series because he has suppressed and repressed the memory of
01:05something very powerful for him and a kind of personal failure um that i think he would rather
01:12just pretend it never happened and so to see a character come to terms with themselves with
01:22their own you know human foibles but in this case really big personal failure um it's just something
01:31i love i mean you're totally right that's something that like i probably find is a primary driver of
01:39character for me the concept of regret the concept of um almost the lack of presence that you have
01:49because you're so wrapped up in the past and your decisions are mistakes from the past so um
01:56that's a cool way of looking at this character i think because that's a big driver for him
02:03all right let's go again
02:08she's a rock star huh how good is she what are you doing here i wanted to surprise isabel marisol
02:15you're supposed to call you can't just show up you didn't pick up hey you do not ignore me
02:19you don't deserve that little girl
02:24is this a hospital oh kind of could you talk about environment um obviously that's a powerful
02:31metaphor in any any space um but specifically with new heights could you talk about using the
02:38environment both visually but also claustrophobically character wise to create sort of this situation
02:44yeah these spaces um institutional spaces like this tend to not be over scaled they tend to feel
02:52too small and in fact that was um the reality of where we were shooting we were shooting in a
02:58former
02:59correctional facility um so in fact we didn't have to work very hard to create a sense that the rooms
03:06are just a little bit too small the spaces are a little bit um honestly claustrophobic i mean
03:13shooting in that space was was genuinely claustrophobic for everyone um and so i do think
03:22you know taking the reality around you and embracing it on a creative level is is something i hope to
03:30keep
03:32leaning on even when i'm complaining about it because i often do complain about like not feeling um
03:38like i have enough room to move but sometimes that's what is called for and so um in this case
03:46it was a pretty perfect marriage of the practical reality with our creative mission um and i do think
03:56we were able to exploit and capitalize on the the low ceilings the sense of um the sense that rooms
04:08backed you into a corner quite literally really fast um and uh i found it pretty exciting actually
04:15on a creative level you know where you are you in the jungle baby this ain't right you can't do
04:25this
04:26please please my name is dr arnold and the record today is october 12th welcome to new height hospital
04:41i want to prepare you for what comes next now having dealt with anthology but this is obviously
04:46a closed season in in many ways how is that different than looking at the journey say with
04:51yellow jackets versus this you know that's a really that's such a good question because i do think you
04:57have to look at them differently you have to imagine that there are urgent questions that will need
05:05further interrogation by season's end to essentially invite the option of a successive season whereas
05:13with a limited series like this i do think it's important that you find various forms of closure for the
05:21characters in some way and and obviously in this series um it it it can have tragic ends and it
05:30can have
05:30more hopeful ends um but i do think it's a little bit more important to posit the central questions
05:41about a character and then hope that you get closer to an answer by the end but i need you
05:47to remain calm
06:03now asking that you know uh putting on your director's head for a minute in addition to the producer
06:08the aspect of getting reaction and action of character in this series it's very interesting to watch the
06:14reaction say of pepper or of dory or of coffee that says so much more than what we can show
06:21in certain
06:21ways can you talk about that uh sort of not necessarily teasing but that decision because what you can't see
06:28can scare you more in certain ways well and that was hopefully a big part of how we looked at
06:35it generally
06:36that that that in film we've now become sort of numb i think to seeing so much horror so much
06:45spectacle
06:46um that in a funny way we've become a bit um desensitized to a more visceral feeling and so
06:58we really made the decision both for practical reasons but also for creative ones that human faces
07:05are are generally more interesting to watch than whatever spectacle they might be seeing um that in the
07:15end it's the human faces are the spectacle um i hope that comes through did you get me out i
07:23don't have
07:24that kind of power i thought you were gonna help maybe i belong here
07:32you ever think there's something wrong with this place and my last question thank you very much
07:38is uh the psychology of of you know because it's because pepper is not necessarily a hero dory isn't
07:45coffee but they do heroic things probably against their will can you talk about that notion of the mythic
07:51uh in certain ways because it's a metaphor for larger ideas but you can look at it within the confines
07:57of this psychiatric ward yeah i think they're all all characters who have
08:05suffered who have made mistakes who have asked for help and not received it and so in some respects they're
08:14both reduced to very human archetypes that we're really used to seeing but then in each heroic act
08:23in each thing or choice they they make toward selflessness um toward sacrifice they are they are mythic and they
08:34are
08:34i hope elevated to something that feels like um that gives the the audience the opportunity to see them
08:45in a deeper or more expansive way than perhaps they started
08:51do bad things happen in a place
08:55because the place is evil
09:00there were so many bad things done there it invited evil in
09:07father's god and holy god
09:10father's god and holy god
09:13father's god and holy god and holy god and holy god and holy god and holy
09:20dad's god and holy god and holy roger y round the sky
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