The wonderful thing about filmmaking is that you do it with other people. I really don't like working just on my own, locking myself in a room. I always like to write with someone else. To create and have the fear, the very fear of not actually coming up with anything, is incredibly stimulating. In other words, you can create a physical reality in the abstract.
Film is completely the opposite.
In film, physical reality has a very strong place. You can't walk into an empty space and say 'Here in Timbuktu' unless you want the film to be instantly classified as a filmed play. Unless it's done like My Dinner with Andre , in the sense that the conversations evoke such strong visual impressions in the viewer's mind. Right, but when you are engaging people in a dramatic story you have to be very real about the world. What a film can do, and what few filmmakers actually realize, is you can film people's internal lives.