On “Wild Things,” in fairness, I could have written that one by myself. Not just on this movie but with every movie, I always show scripts and rough cuts to my friends and just talk to my friends. Did you seek out consultation from anyone during the writing process?Īlways. This marks the first time you’re solely credited for one of your screenplays. That’s not really what this movie is about.” I just started with Theodore. An operating system that was a character on a sitcom, all these different ideas that as soon as I started writing on page one I just realized, “Man, these ideas are never going to fit in this movie. I think that is much more of what the movie is about.Įven in those initial notes before I wrote the script, there are probably a lot more things about operating systems in society. As you were pointing out, I think I was much more making a movie about relationships and the way we relate to each other and the things in us and the things in me that prevent intimacy or prevent connection. Now in hindsight I think I was using technology and society and the speed of our lives and the ways we use technology to connect or not to connect, I was using that as the setting for the story as opposed to what the movie is actually about. I think one of the things you’re pointing out is that I’ve realized more in hindsight I always went towards the intimate. Then I’m always trying to stay true to that and that’s the thing I go back to. I start with what the movie feels like to me. But when you’re doing it, it’s A), instinctual B), you’re discovering it C), it’s evolving the whole time. I think it’s easier to talk about it after - not easier, but I feel like you can make yourself look smarter after the fact because you’re describing what you were doing. Can you break down your creative process on this film?
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