Directing, 4th Edition

C H A P T E R 1 1

SETTING CREATIVE

LIMITATIONS

Making a dramatic film is unavoidably an expensive process with its many indus-trialized stages made necessary by the pressing need to work efficiently. With a number of well-respected films under his belt—in particular Leaving Las Vegas (1995), Miss Julie (2000), Timecode (2000), and Hotel (2001)—Mike Figgis has greeted the scaled-down nature of digital filmmaking with relief:

The further that I went into the digital world the more intrigued I became with the possibilities of this new and unexplored technology. What started out as a mar-riage of convenience turned into a love affair. My dissatisfaction with the main-stream cinema scene stems from a deep frustration with the stranglehold that ...