It is written exactly like a string quartet. Each bar line represents a minute. I figured the only way to have any control over the way it was going was to come up with some sort of notation system . It looked just like a piece of music and I could literally say go to Bar 63 which would be 63 minutes into the film. I love music.
Music is really powerful.
There was a period of jazz when Jerry Mulligan suddenly said I'm not going to use the piano. I don't want the piano player always telling me where the structure is. He went through a whole period where there is no piano. I understand why Dogme is saying enough already of John Williams and enough already of big lighting. I was on a train when I started to write it out.