Darren Hughes has a nifty essay on David Lowery’s St. Nick, which just screened at SXSW. What I enjoy so much about Darren’s essay is the glimpse you get into the relationships that can develop between critic and artist, pushing and pulling, critiquing and encouraging. Other early reviews are good, and this interview is interesting:
“I used to think of myself as a writer, although now I don’t. I think of myself as a director, and I use the script so that we can have a plan and some structure. I just try to get enough down on paper to let everybody know what the feeling of the story is and let them know what is going to happen. So much of it is just in my head as images. I think like an editor. I think in terms of juxtaposed images and all the meaning that comes out of two images clashed up against each other, or a single shot that lasts for a certain amount of time. You can’t really write that very well, and so I write enough of a script to create a plan that will allow me to then make that film that’s in my head. If it were just me making the film by myself—like I do with my short films—I wouldn’t write at all.”