The Filmmaker's Guide to Creatively Embracing Limitations

Foreword

“The most important thing about limitations for me first, for a director, is that if you don’t have it, there’s no juice. If you want to be a journeyman director, anybody can do that – learn the film language, learn the shots, learn the lens, you know, anybody can do that. If that’s the kind of director you want to be and stay on budget exactly, and stay on schedule exactly and just shoot what you’re supposed to, what the script says, OK, but there’s no juice in there. You know, and the restrictions saying, No, you don’t have that much time. No, the sun’s going down. No, the actor’s sick today. No, the crane is missing a part. No, it goes on and on and on… that’s when the juice occurs. That’s it. ‘Holy shit, what are we going to do?’ ...