Looks like we're in good hands. We shoot a straight-forward scene in the morning, in the afternoon it's monologues. The place is humming now. Each lunch is a sit-down with a different advisor, evening is a reading of a Lab project or a screening of a film. The other directing fellows have similar experiences.
Dinner is Japanese food trucked up from Provo.
The night ends in the Owl Bar. I'm shooting at an exterior location with no toilet facilities. We all take turns disappearing into the bushes. I have been reminded that the process is more important than the result, that this is my sketchpad, that I should take risks. Agnieszka Holland, Allison Anders, and Mark Rydell have each told me that they might drop by my set.