Noah Hawley

I mean, I've heard these stories about Vince Gilligan where he's like, that's good.

Let's spend two weeks seeing if we can top it.

That would make me crazy.

Yeah, and so you get on set, and I have a script I think is great, and I get on the set with the actors, and I'm not saying we're going to change the words, but let's figure out what it would really be like and what it wants to be, and you've got to be open to play in that moment.

Yeah, I mean, it's its own unique medium, right?

And I did like the experience of it, you know?

I mean, one of the things that, you know, I'm such a use-every-part-of-the-animal television filmmaker that, you know, sometimes a scene doesn't fit, and you're like, I'll use it in episode four, you know, or I'll repurpose this.

But with the movie, you're like, there is no episode four.

It's either in this movie or it doesn't exist, right?

And, you know, whenever I come into a...

project, my first question is always, what am I taking for granted?

Right.

As a storyteller, a filmmaker, whatever.

And with Lucy, I was like, all right, well, this is a movie that's going to be shown in theaters.

Well, maybe I'm taking the movie theater itself for granted.

The fact that it's a you got a giant rectangle at the front and all these speakers on the side and you're taking for granted that you want to use the whole rectangle and all the speakers.

But what if this woman goes to space and it's this huge

you know, spiritual experience and the screen is full and the sound is full.

And then she comes back down to earth.

We see her in the pickup line, you know, to pick up her kid.