WHEN YOU FINISH A FILM. HOW DO YOU FEEL?

That I look tired as fuck! I think this shot of us was taken on one of our last days of shooting. My girlfriend and I were up all night, had to wake up at 3 am for yet another 16 hour day. It sort of sucked. But now I miss those days! 

EZEQUIEL

one down, many more to go!

AGAIN!!!! I feel the same way after finishing my screenplay. You work so hard for so long that once its over its like " What the fuck do I do now?" Kind of like sex, do you role over and sleep or turn and cuddle?

EZEQUIEL

is a good reason

as soon as you get involved

in your new project

the pain will pass

Rum for Captains!!!

Never made a feature, but when I finish a film piece... I GET DA BIGGEST ITCH IN DA WORLD... To Scratch... To Relieve... To Present.

Sorta like this itch I have to finally present a book piece for my manuscripts I've collected these past couple of years... COMING SOON... hAhA... :)

the closest thing you'll ever experience to giving birth. Long, sometimes painful, but in the end you're happy it's done. Then comes the job of raising it right to make sure it has the best chance to survive in the cold cruel world.

Yeah, it's always hard when it's done! I'm going through some of that right now even though I have a whole summer of editing to go through. We had our last shoot last night. We got done at 4:30am then of course we all had to go to the Waffle house to juice up with some coffee so we could make the hour and a half ride home.

Bill and I were both bleary eyed and Bill said "You know I feel like hell right now but I love doing this and I don't know what I'm going to do with my weekends now it's done."

Ditto for me of course. That's why we keep making them. We just live without it!

I always feel an elated sense of relief.  After so many sleepless nights and stressful days...after waiting for something to come around the corner and ruin everything...after biting nails, hoping that crazy idea you wrote on paper so long ago works out on film...after all that you actually made it.  You did it!  It's done!  There's always a sense of disbelief that it was even possible.

Then there's the feeling of accomplishment.  That you created something that didn't exist in this world until you began meddling.   

And of course there's the eager/nervous excitement to see what other people think, to find out if it was all worth it. 

and never satisfied. It can always be better.

So, to speak to the other half, I'm always pissed when I finish a
script.  And I don't mean a little upset, I mean I've had to go
and shoot things.  Innocent creatures who never did a fucking
thing to me.  I want to shed blood.  There's something about
knowing how far you are away from getting it right that drives me up
the fucking wall and right through the roof.  Finishing something
for me is usually- fuck that, always-  proof fucking positive that
I suck the fucking root.  But that anger is what makes me sit back
down and keep on working until it hurts.  Gotta have something
driving, and hate's as good a thing as any other, I suppose. 

If it's just ridiculous, it's bad.

IF IT IS RRIIIDDDIICCUUULLOOUUSS, then it's okay.

I have to jump on the same band wagon as bigsugar and jayyuma. Never satisfied. Ever. Probably never will be. John Woo has said he never watches his movies more than once and that dude is a fucking hero to me. But at the same time I feel the same way as Ouchmouth. Once I'm done, I gotta put that shit out there to see how other people react. I don't make these things to watch by my lonesome self.

whenever i finish a movie i do a couple lines and get a blowjob from a stripper in the champagne room.  if i'm feeling crazy i might even let her stick her finger in my butt, but that's only if i'm pleased with the work that i've done, on the movie that is....

Take out the "C", replace it with an "S".

Take out the "P", replace it with a "T".

haha 

EZEQUIEL

Lately I've been reading Pablo Picasso's biography... hoping it'll help me finish my upcoming short piece: hPAINTERS

 "To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture. "  (Pablo Picasso)

Sadly, for me finishing the shoot, and even fininshing the edit - that's not even the halfway mark for me. I view it as rounding the 2nd corner in a 1,200 meter dash (for donuts in my case).

Promoting, selling, screening, and even more promotion is what stares me down when I get done with the edit. 

The emotion I feel never equates to relief because there's a ton more to do.

Can't say I know exactly how it feels to finish a feature shoot of my own (though I've worked on a couple as PA/INTERN/ETC). But finishing my first feature-length script almost killed me back in April...I worked on the thing for years; started doing notations on characters and narrative when I was still a teenager (took about half a year to write the thing once I finally compiled all my leads).

I was living in London at the time, used to 5+ hours a day locked in my dark flat, typing away with white noise in my ears. Then I realized I was done. And I was absolutely distraught. I felt like I was closing a chapter on my life, like I was losing friends in my characters - people I'd known and learned about for years. Of course, I'm a very careful writer...a big planner, a person who hates going back to change things. I feel that no matter how many times I DO go back to the beginning, how many times I DO read my scripted voice, knowing that the thing's done...that an ending has been set and grounded - it completely takes away the reality of the world I immersed myself in. Sucks.

But at the same time...the sense of accomplishment is astounding. And you gotta keep on keepin' on, right? Little ways into my second feature now (something a bit more shootable on 0 budget)...already finding myself getting lost.