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Consistency is very important when you're making films.

Same thing with film, by the time you've finished shooting and you've really been into everything, you've touched up everything in the editing room. You've gone in there and taken little bits from everything.

When you're making a film, you don't really have time to consider what the whole of your film is. And then, when you're releasing your film and promoting your film, you're looking at it in a different way. Then, as you move away from it, you start to look at it objectively and think, 'What could I have done better?'

I grew up on film sets but more around the process of making films. I saw a lot of the editing process and the writing process, which takes years. That really affected me growing up, that side of it.

We ended up with 19 hours of footage and had to narrow it down to an hour and a half. Our instructions were to film everything that came up, including the more mundane moments.

There are so many details in a movie that it's amazing how much work you'll do to change what adds up to not that much material.

I'm very interested in the editing process - in all aspects of film-making, really.

Docs, in general, are made in the edit bay, archival docs even more so.

The making of the documentary is an involving and collaborative process where you go deeper unlike in movies where you just borrow someone else's script.

The reason I wanted to start directing is that as an actor I felt I came into a job late. There's a whole team of people who have been working on it for months before you start. You have this really intense period of filming and then you leave it, knowing that the director will work on it for another few months.

Filmmaking is the ultimate team sport.

I'd love to direct, I'd love to produce. I'd love to learn all about it, and being around it all the time certainly helps.

With me, I probably work a lot more than people assume I do, but people don't realize how much work goes into writing and producing and making a movie.

In making films, you're dealing with hundreds of people and a crew, but eventually, it's you and an editor, and that part of it, I liked it a lot. The experience on 'Up in Smoke' was great. I really enjoyed it.

Learning how to edit movies was a real breakthrough.

I guess I'm a good manager now. Moreover, I'm loving the concept of donning the producer's hat. It's all very exciting as well as a great learning experience. You're a part of a film right from its conception to its execution, and that's an amazing feeling.

There's the movie you write, there's the movie you shoot and the movie you edit, and often, you find that you're getting the same information out of a scene that you already have and a scene that's actually more powerful, so you have to make the tough decision to take it out.

The thing about documentary is that you don't really choose your subjects: they come and grab you out of your bed.

As a filmmaker and film student, I think it's really interesting to hear what a director did and how they figured out how to do things.

The filmmakers always have a great level of control.

When you make a movie, you do it so piecemeal. You're doing it, not only scene by scene, out of order, but shot by shot, line by line. And there's this idea that the director has the whole thing in his or her head and they're going to somehow weave it all together in the end.

I think the toughest thing is to describe what a producer does because they basically do everything. They follow a project from the start through the rest of its life and, along the way, are a part of every single aspect of its growth. It's tremendously enriching, though, because you get to know and live with the movie in its entirety.

I've been involved with some huge studio projects that have been bloody awesome. It all starts with a great script, doesn't it?

Of course, a movie is in constant flux.

Making a movie is like a marathon, and commercials are like sprints - they're equally satisfying, but in different ways.