Really, It's The Director's Job

Discover How Little You Know About The People You Know.

The First Thing I Say When People Ask What's The Difference [between Doing Tv And Film], Is That Film Has An Ending And Tv Doesn't. When I Write A Film, All I Think About Is Where The Thing Ends And How To Get The Audience There. And In Television, It Can't End. You Need The Audience To Return The Next Week. It Kind Of Shifts The Drive Of The Story. But I Find That More As A Writer Than As A Director.

All The Airports Kind Of Feel And Look The Same Now. Some Are More Beautiful, Some Are Less Beautiful, But For The Most Part You're Going To Find A Starbucks In Every Airport. You're Going To Get Your Coffee And The 'usa Today' Or 'new York Times' In Every Airport.

I'm Really Specific In The Way That I Shoot. I've Always Had A Very Good Sense Of What I Need In The Editing Room. I Used To Shoot In A Way That Drew More Attention To The Camera And I've Tried, In Each Film, To Draw Less And Less Attention To The Camera. I Think When You Pay Attention To The Shots, You're Aware Of The Fact That There's A Director.

And As A Director, You Make 1,000 Decisions A Day, Mostly Binary Decisions: Yes Or No, This One Or That One, The Red One Or The Blue One, Faster Or Slower. And It's The Culmination Of Those Decisions That Define The Tone Of The Film And Whether Or Not It Moves People.