Word: scripted
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...notion of validity of sources. Once his interviews are completed, he works with sets, storyboards, and the rest of the production elements associated with feature filmmaking. Nevertheless, the films "do obey one central rule of spontaneity, and that's the interview. What people actually say on camera isn't scripted for them; they come into a studio and they say it. They write it for me, if you like, and then the text becomes the script for what follows...
...hear these distinctions between drama and documentary: one is true, the other is made up. I don't think that makes much sense. I mean, there's a big difference between using real people and having no script, and having actors and a script that they follow; that seems to be fairly clear. It occurred to me that the difference between the two was about control, more than anything, that when we think of a scripted movie, we thing about movies that are controlled by the director, or the director and the writer if they...
...Well, when I improvise, it's not like I'm making fun of the person. In some ways I felt like I totally already knew the character, but in other ways, Paul had synthesized that character into the script and added a lot more weight to him, and a whole romantic angle, and so I had to flesh it out at the same time. And then, also, I spent a lot of time with policemen... After we did those improvisations and I started to prepare for the movie I went out policemen in North Hollywood and drove around with them...