Soon, unwittingly, they're trading fire with real life bad guys -- thus the true meaning of shooting without a script.

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It may be one of the casualties of the auteur theory and the general solemnization of directors that some of the most talented people now just start shooting a script as if big ideas and directorial vision were enough to hold a movie together.

NEWYORKER: Rough Rides

As a matter of fact, we were rewriting that script or writing--trying to finish the script almost to the last day of shooting.

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From development, such as script writing and previsualizing your shots, to shooting the movie, to editing, then finally sharing with the world.

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