Maggie Gyllenhaal

If you know, like I was saying about actually even watching good acting, like you'd rather watch someone learn something for real on screen instead of fake like they're learning it, even if they fake it very well.

I was actually learning as I was working, which was incredible, like so exhilarating, but also amazing.

Well, like, if we... Say we're saying, okay, there's a big... You know, the movie has almost like a Bonnie and Clyde aspect of lovers on the run, you know?

And there's a lot of stuff in a car.

And we were talking about different ways of shooting in the car.

And we were, for example, say, talking about Thelma and Louise, Ridley Scott.

Lots of long lenses.

Totally different way of shooting than we were shooting because they were actually in that location shooting...

you know, probably with an array of cameras, both far away on really long lenses and then close around the car.

Different than the way we did it, but I loved the aesthetic of that movie.

I found I really loved... I really love long lensing.

My editor was joking with me that I should be a birdwatcher.

The movie is set in 1936.

which was somewhat random.

I originally said it when I was writing just post-Civil War because so many people had died.

This is a movie about people coming back from the dead.

So I was kind of thinking about when were the times when the veil between the living and the dead felt the thinnest.

So I was thinking about post-Civil War.

So many people died.

So many children died in childbirth.