The movie is a thing that springs from me; by that I mean I conceived it, I wrote it, I designed the sets and built them, I directed the thing and edited the final product together. And thus responsibility for that final product rests with me. Conversely I will take very little credit for what is good in the film.

It was my responsibility to find people who might be able to take some credit for their contributions. Folks who showed up, worked hard and lined themselves up to earn a little credit for a job well done on the movie. Credit for showing up and doing a job works for about everyone except me. Doing my job(s) on the movie are compulsory to the fact that I created the situation. After a certain point the film was something that had to be done, things had progressed happily to a ‘no turning around’ moment. From that instance nearly all of my actions are responsibilities, not just to the movie, but the other people involved.

You don’t typically give someone credit for breathing or taking a shit. Those things are natural obligations to being a living person. The film became a natural obligation to me. Don’t take that as I resent it or I dislike it as an objective thing. I very much enjoy all of the process and the film itself, especially now distantly removed from the insane production days. It just feels hard to take credit for a thing that I see as a natural internal obligation to see through to the end.