How can someone not see Ellen Burstyn's decline and feel for her. I think it's a danger. I was extremely inventive, and I encouraged my whole team to go off, because I wanted to the push the edges of film grammar and experiment and use different techniques and have fun. But because I thought the film would benefit from having a lot of visual and sound excitement in a new way, it's dangerous because the greatest thing I've ever done in my life is capturing Ellen Burstyn's performance on film. So I'm hoping that people can sit back and see both things.
Filmmakers have to be very careful.
An important lesson I learned when I was kid, was me and my sister and friends, use to put on little shows. We use to put on records and lip-sync or dance to them. It was pitch black, except for this little spotlight. And what I learned from that is that if it gets in the way of performance, then don't do it. And I think the performances are there, but between the performances, there is some fireworks.