Morris

"The systematic organization necessary to get significant images of celluloid is vast. The perpetual waiting around on the set, the moods, the anxieties, the personalities, the ennui, the flippant and cynical Hollywood humor and extravagant one-liners provide their own histrionics. "Once a movie starts shooting," John Gregory Dunne has written, "it resembles a freight train without breaks; it gathers speed and goes, and it is best to keep out of the way... Tension is the given of a movie, and it has less to do with ego than with the intensity of short-term relationships, a life time lived in a seventy-day shoot.""


June 6, 2000