Normally as a director, you do look at other films and things that are relevant. But with this film, it became impossible because I became so aware of the camera placement. ↗
I'm not so funny. Gilda was funny. I'm funny on camera sometimes. In life, once in a while. Once in a while. But she was funny. She spent more time worrying about being liked than anything else. ↗
Whether it was working on theatre sets or stage lighting, I didn't realize most all of the skills I was exposed to were going to come in handy later on when I became a designer. ↗
But when I came back into the city for the first time last November, I thought every truck, every building was going to blow up. It has truly changed me something fierce. ↗
I really love sort of classical cinema where people were telling stories with very little dialogue, and people were using the camera in a really interesting way. ↗