I have been doing a fair amount of interviewing lately. I need to staff up as part of my new mission. Team building is an art, but it’s been awhile since I had to put one together that would last. It’s a bit different when you staff up for a film. Sure a feature is a long distance run, but it is not a marathon. I would like to find the folks I will be with for a very long time in San Francisco. Luckily for me, there is a pretty great group already in place, but there are still some vacancies.
Interviews have become a sort of standard fodder for humor in film. Perhaps that is a legacy from TRAINSPOTTING… As a result every time I ask one of those standard issue questions I feel like I am mocking myself. Still though they are useful. But the real hypocrisy is that I probably can not answer them myself. I do think each movie I have made so far has changed me, but I am not sure if I can name how.
It strikes me that we would all be better filmmakers if we tried to name what we learned from each of our movies.
