I do a lot of tricky dialog cutting and I was able to turn over to sound via OMF, and no rebuilding was necessary. John generally loved the stuff that I presented him with. But I think for the most part he was very happy. I think it's better to get good film regardless of how you get it. If there is something good there, I don't care how we got to that point, and directors vary on how they get to that point.
Some people know exactly what they want, and some people experiment.
I think John can do either or both. John is tremendously open to ideas and he is fearless. He is also, in a very wonderful way, able to be an audience to his own movie and be objective about it. That's an amazing thing for somebody who has, in this case, lived with the material for nearly a decade. We had a great meeting of the minds on this picture, and there is an awful lot of mutual respect.