slightly. Another thing is that you make loads of mistakes. some of them people save you on, and some of them they don't and they are there in the movie. If you are any good you remember them all and you learn for next time. Richard saved me several times. there were several times were Richard said "medium shot" and I said "yeah" and he'd say "where" and I said "you decide". And he would pick what he thought was the best background the deepest background, and he would do it there. a big inspiration, and I don't mean a creative inspiration in terms of the contents of the thing, was an inspiration in terms of my own confidence going in to direct the movie was Michael Hanneke. Watching a movie like Amour or Hidden and looking at the limited amount of shots that he used. How very specifically he was with getting things across in as minimal away as possible. I found I very much that identified with that. And that might have come from theatre as well. With theatre you have nothing. You have your set, but your set isn't doing anything. So everything has to come across with the minimal amount of means. it's just people talking to each other I suppose. I very much identified with his style. And the second thing was that I knew I would have to shoot it on a really low budget. I knew that I would have to be able to do it quickly. I wasn't going to be left standing on a set not knowing what to do. So I planned out every scene. I storyboarded every scene. I always knew where a scene would cut. If you look at the script for The Delinquent Season, you would see maybe for moments that are a bit shorter, that are a bit different. But everything cuts the way that it was written. I'm not advocating that as the best way of making films, although it's good for some people and other ways are good for others. But I am advocating it indicates work your first time and you don't have a lot of confidence, and you don't have a huge amount of time. When you have lots of time before you make the movie and you're planning it, then you can kind of depend on that when you hit that moment when you go "I don't know what to do". And even if a problem comes up or a location turns out to be different than you expected, you can go back and ask "what did you want to get across in that plan you made, and is there a way with this that you can get that across" as opposed to kind of going "I don't know what to do". That saves a huge amount of time and the actors love that as well, because they know there's no time as well and they want to get in and out as fast as they can. Not as fast as they can but as economically as they can. And then another thing was the story of when John Huston directed The Maltese Falcon, which was his first feature. He storyboarded the whole thing so that when he turned up on set on the first day he could go "over there, that's where we begin" and not have to be fretting and panicking. what happened was I got so confident, not overconfident, confident about what Richard was doing as well that I was able to say "I need a medium shot hear of that character". I wasn't looking for control to the extent that I would pick the window or the background. Richard as we went along had a lot of freedom, but if I wasn't controlling it in that way I would panic and lose my confidence and start making very bad decisions. You know that when you planned it does it works. if you had a lot more time to shoot the movie in then you might be able to try stuff, and even with a really tight spot juice you still have a little bit of time. Some days you find yourself getting something very quickly and having a little bit of time then to play around with it, and that's great. But other days you barely make it, and you look at everything that you shot in that scene, and you look back and you go "that take there, you can cut to that, and you can take that out of there even though it's messed up at that point. I think it's all might cut". And that's all you can go at the time as you are about to get thrown out of the location. I like the idea, not of being controlling because I loved the idea of people...and you give the actors an awful lot of