I think it would be impossible if you had a name like mine not to get a little flack for it.
Michael WinterbottomI don't particularly like the idea that there's an arc to the story and that therefore in this scene you have to convey this bit of information or emotion. I like more the feeling that, of course, there is a shape to the story, but that each scene should feel right, should be true at that moment, and that gradually you accumulate these moments of truth until you get enough of them together that it becomes a story that's interesting.
Michael WinterbottomWe always had the idea that there might be two slightly different versions of the same thing.
Michael Winterbottom