Damn cool interview with me
here: http://punktv.ca/?c=105&a=2932
Me interviewed recently, on a day that I was in fine form. On PunkTV.ca (great site.)
excerpt:
PunkTV.ca: How did you create natural and essential elements of story telling in your process?
MWD: I didn’t consciously know anything about storytelling, but I was always the kid when I smoked pot when I was twelve and all of the older kids would get me high so I could tell them stories. I was always someone people listened to because I could but a paragraph together on the spot. But I had never heard of three-act format, I’d never heard of it and since I’ve heard of it I’ve come to like it but at the same time I have lots of problems with it. We had a cut of two hours and 70 minutes, and they both just dragged on, so we felt that 55 minutes was where the film wanted to be, but I think that really the format of it is less of film making and more of an essay – basically this movie is a mission statement while the people in it kind of float by, and then there are six chapters, and they kind of start with the problem being stated and then people give their take on the problem. I guess it is kind of three-act format, but I feel that is follows more of a twelfth grader’s essay.