JMV... "the way we shoot – handheld with available light, not blocking the light, not reflecting it – it creates a space. There's a feeling of reality; we're doing fiction but it becomes about capturing. I'll shoot the first rehearsal and I don't tell the actors where to go. Sometimes it sucks, sometimes it's good and then I react to that. I do coverage depending on the [character's] perspective, what they look at and where they go. If she starts walking and then she stops and he looks at her, or she looks at him - I cut from her perspective and use her looks to tell me where to cut there. [...] to shoot with no rehearsal."
"when I saw the Pacific Ocean over there, it was f***ing angry and violent. I've never seen waves like that and the sunset was so incredible. I thought, this has to be a character. And the sound – it would be the sound of the series. I thought, let's find houses where these women will have a connection to the ocean. The ocean is the mother of humanity. It's so powerful, strong and mysterious and such a good symbol."
(source: DNA article, written by Rucha Sharma. Photo credit: Michael Watier)
