Buckets

Director Gillies Mackinnon and I have been having a bit of banter. He's in the process of reading the latest (and hopefully final) draft of the script. We've been re-establishing the writer - director relationship which is crucial to the task of making a good film.

As part of the correspondence Gillies said "The key to this is that everyone is making the same film - and this is not always true. When not, misery can descend like buckets of shite. But when we're all in the same army, it can be a strange kind of stressful bliss."

The dream of what the movie can be - the vision of the story - that's the key to a happy team and a film that has some substance. Too late to think about that when the cameras start rolling. We need to be "pressing on" (to use a Dylan phrase) toward the same end.

The reason I've been so keen on having Gillies involved in the project is that I think he and I have the same vision of what this is all about.

My production company is named 'Holy Bucket Productions' - hopefully not a bucket of shite...