I thought maybe someday I'd have to commit suicide, but I never thought I'd have to grow up, or get rid of this stuff.
The editing has been going extremely well since the screening in Seattle on the 6th of March. I received very valuable feedback, and from it got a very specific direction. After executing most of the suggested changes, I felt a change in my relationship to the project. For the first time I felt like I knew the two main characters—almost like they were two new friends. And I got a sense of the flow or pacing of the film, and what I needed to do to improve it. Previously, by comparison, I had only been working with big chunks of material, trying to remove the right chunks to get to this point of intimacy with the movie. It had been very frustrating to not feel that intimacy for my own work, and almost feeling that I was working blindly, not knowing what chunks needed to be removed and what chunks needed to stay, or get moved around. Now the characters and the movie itself are talking to me and guiding me.