Maggie Gyllenhaal

But I think in some ways I didn't even know what I was walking into.

I mean, that said, I'd been on so many sets.

I think about directors who are really first-time directors who don't know how to read a call sheet, you know, who don't know what the rhythm of a day feels like, who...

that must be really, really scary.

But even more than that, I think with The Bride, I actually was terrified before I started.

I was like, I wrote the script.

It came out very, not easily, obviously, writing is so hard, but there was an ease to it.

And then...

I was scared.

I was really scared.

Yeah, I mean, it's interesting.

On set, even though it was, as you say, like the scope was just much bigger, it felt very similar to The Lost Daughter.

in terms of just working, workflow, how we did it.

And I didn't know that it would, and I think that's part of why I was scared.

But once we got working, it was the same.

And yet, actually, maybe even easier in some ways because the heads of every department were incredible.

We had a longer schedule.

I mean, like maybe even twice as long.

I shot, not quite twice as long, but I shot The Lost Daughter in 26 days.

Wow.