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November 4, 2006

Embracing Limits

Two outstanding quotes from a single source, that being Old Joy director Kelly Reichardt in the latest issue of Filmmaker Magazine:

Embracing limits has ultimately helped me figure out my best way of working, like with Old Joy to be able to [work with] six friends and two actors, just eight people, to get this cabin in the woods and try something. There were no Blackberrys and no a.d. telling us what time to get up. At the end of the night we’d all say, “What time should we get up tomorrow?”

...and...

Some of my films have been a lot more like sewing — I’m shooting and editing and there are no people in them — and [this kind of filmmaking] allows [me] to practice and think about film and editing.

I love that last one especially, since that's what a lot of my own insular little filmmaking efforts are like. Can I even call it filmmaking when I'm sitting alone at some odd hour before dawn, like I am right now, painting matchboxes and sculpting miniature cadavers that will hopefully fit the unscripted vision that's shifting around inside my head? I guess that's what you normally call pre-production.

Posted by David Lowery at November 4, 2006 5:43 AM