Nori Niven

We would load the film backwards.

We baked the film.

We pushed exposures.

We did everything you could imagine experimental-wise just to push it, just to see what we could do to try to create different looks and different styles.

And it really pushed the science of film just to go for it.

I call them serial killers.

I thought that all the love songs, the male actors they hired looked like they wanted to kill everyone.

When they look like they were in love, it just looked like they wanted to kill everyone.

Oh, it was a train wreck.

I remember I was in a loft downtown and the guy came in from LA and, oh gosh, and he was like, he said, we're going to cut the budgets in half and we'd like for you to start using stock footage.

How much stock footage can you cram into these things?

And I was like, oh my gosh, red flags everywhere.

And I was like, I'm out.

Nothing looked good at that point.

So we politely resigned the job.