Pacing is not the SORT of thing you can plan out beforehand, but you're always aware of it as you WRITE, because you NEED to MAKE CONSTANT decisions.

I don't want to stand on STAGE night after night, without being on my FACE beforehand TRULY CRYING out for those that have COME to the event.

With 'Toy Story,' which is a FANTASTIC FILM but is essentially animation, you get to MAKE all your decisions beforehand. 'Jumanji' is shot MUCH like any other ACTION film.

Bottom up thinkers TRY to start from experience and move from experience to understanding. They don't start with certain general principles they THINK beforehand are likely to be true; they just hope to FIND out what reality is like.

I roughly draw the scene beforehand to be more CONFIDENT on the set. INSTEAD of TALKING and explaining certain things, I TRY to visually communicate the scene to my team with the story board. This is how I work.

I love dressing up, but I do FIND the RED carpet thing quite stressful. When I went to Venice FILM Festival last month to PROMOTE 'Wuthering Heights,' I told my BOYFRIEND beforehand 'I will be a nightmare, I will cry, I will be nervous.' Actually once I was there, it was fine.

I remember the first TIME I spoke to an editor. I THOUGHT I'd be SICK, I was so NERVOUS. The first time I spoke to a large GROUP at a conference, I had the jitters for days beforehand.

Audiences are very willing to be taken SOMEWHERE, and to ASK an audience beforehand what it WANTS is probably, I think, a MISTAKE. Much better you should TELL them what you want and hope they agree with it.

I know GIRLFRIENDS of mine who, when they were approaching pregnancy and starting a FAMILY, consistently went through a period right beforehand that was a last gasp kind of thing where they just wreak havoc. They fall apart, in a PROFOUND way, because there's some awareness that that's the last TIME they can do that for awhile.