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.
'Saw' is like a big jigsaw puzzle. When you put a jigsaw puzzle together, you put the bottom left corner together first, and then you find yourself working on the upper right corner... That's the way 'Saw' plays out.
Since I was a kid, I liked construction.
Who wants to put together something that will bear some relationship to the vision or memory or experience or story or idea or dream or whatever.
I get a moral satisfaction out of putting things together.
I was just taking my sketchbook to Kinko's and making photocopies and hand-assembling them - folding them over and stapling them.
I took the pieces you threw away, put them together by night and day. Washed by the rain. Dried by the sun. A million pieces all in one.
The cutting room is where you discover the optimal length of the movie.
If I wasn't a writer, I would probably be a watchmaker. I like putting puzzles together, and that is what a watch is, figuring out how all the gears and everything else works together. I'm patient and good at focusing on a single task.
You might say that my work is just simply lying on the ground, and I go and I gather it, and I pick it up, and I put it together.
And to the English court assemble now, From every region, apes of idleness!
It's like a jigsaw, there's a piece of the puzzle at the beginning and it's the only one and of course it had a lot to do with the way you look. And then you have to have the time to add pieces of the jigsaw.
When some French were assembling an encyclopedia of paranormal experiences, they decided to leave déjà vu out, because it was so common it could not be considered paranormal.
I say ‘Uhmm...’ a lot. I mentioned this to Karla and she says it’s a CPU word. It means you’re assembling data in your head - spooling.
I'm like a magpie. I use lots of different things to build a character.
Rituals are the building blocks of life, my way of cobbling an entire summer together from incidental wisps.
When you cut a film, certain scenes fall away and don't fit into the shape of the movie.
