"You know, it only takes one person to make pasta." "And it's nice to have other people around you when you make pasta." "It's a warm, good, helpful feeling." "Someone can hand you the water, and the pot, and salt." "All sorts of people can be around." "But if everybody wants to stir it with the same spoon, at the same time, it's kinda the pasta cluster-fuck." "This my pasta cluster-fuck." "Let's shoot!" "It's hot." "It's hot." "No power." "No." "India is the loudest city" "I have ever been to... or the loudest country." "Chennai is the loudest city." "It's like a Black Dice album." "Why..." "What, don't whine." "I feel like I'm in some sort of mental institution, or rehab, where they have you do collages about your feelings, but my feelings are apparently about" "a woman who becomes a snake." "Maybe this is all some grand experiment about my inner demons." "Or I can turn it this way, that way." "This is the window portion." "Great." "And this is this portion." "So we could use that wall, as it is." "She looks like a man in drag." "They love that kind of thing." "Melodrama, overdone." "Is this a new film?" "Yeah." " This is new?" " New." " It's current?" " Current." "It's a current flick." "You gotta love it." "Look at that." "Look at that." "Very subtle actress." "Growing up with a film maker father was made even more wonderful by growing up with a painter and storyteller mother as well." "Someone was always making something and ideas were treasured." "But I had no real intention of ever making films myself." "I knew I wanted to paint." "I knew I was a writer." "You know, actually, it happened to me after writing Boxing Helena when I was 19." "Basically, people read it and said," ""You have to direct this."" "And yet, I'd never held a camera." "Not everybody gets to win worst picture of the year." "But I did." "And that would have been just fine." "It was the venom that came out of people who saw it." "It was the schoolyard in my adult life." "And I secretly thought to myself," "I should probably do something that people think I should do." "As soon as I could" "I put my ankles behind my ears and made a baby." "She's my finest production to date." "I got sober." "I had three spinal surgeries." "I cleaned houses." "My job, and I celebrated it, was to be my daughter's mother." "It was 15 years between Boxing Helena and Surveillance." "And I got a call from Govind, and he said we should talk to you about directing this film we're going to do in India." "We want an American director." "It was the legend of Nagin, and she's a fertility goddess." "I really liked the idea of a strong woman who wasn't going to take any crap." "We need you to stab at him as he runs out." "As he runs out?" "Yeah, but you're trapped." "You can't go, and he goes." "He knows he's in trouble." "Yes." "Like that?" "Yes, yes, yes." "I'm so excited." "It works." "How about that, I got a good review." "How about that?" "That's pretty cool, right?" "I got a good review, so" "I needed that." ""The layers of power play, the dark heart," ""the delicious finish, the film covered all the bases" ""of my personal cinematic tastes, and Surveillance has" ""what just might be the J.L. Signature," ""what makes people lover her or hate her," ""all over it."" "Aww." "They called Boxing Helena "torture porn", which is really... it was a fucking fairy tale but people took it really seriously." "I wrote it when I was 19." "Why would I write torture porn at 19, but I guess that's... you never know what people are going to see." "I've got to send this to my dad." "I think the neckline is too much." "Are you kidding?" "It's the best thing I've ever seen." "Oh shut up, Jennifer, come on." "You know what?" "You don't get to say something and then tell me to shut up." "Cause I think it's the best thing I've ever fucking seen." "Come on, Jennifer, it's too much." "And if this is weathered, it will look less revealing." "Right now it looks posed, okay?" "But I'm not going to cover your body." "There's absolutely nothing wrong with it." "Okay?" "You're such a doll, Jennifer." "A dork?" "Doll, I said." "Oh." " What do you..." " I was gonna say jeeze..." "I'm on my period." "Be nice." "You're a doll, I said... a dork!" "It's broken up, and then it's like..." "You know, it's a little less, you know?" "I've left it to you." "Ah, let's see this one." "One side can be left loose, and one side be straight one." "Maybe I'm the nagin and I just don't know it." "Yeah, exactly." " And I'm looking for my mate." " Yeah." " That's why I'm single." " Exactly." "Well, I feel much better about it now." "I have to go do a dance for him to tell me where he is." "Whoop, sorry." "Hey, that's not a bad clearing." "It's just beautiful." "You're got this too." "Yeah, no I love this jungle." "I'd bring her in from here, and catch her." "Yeah." "Just thought I'd pick up smoking again." "I wonder if I were thinner, if I'd be getting more done." " I love you." " I love you too." "I know, but I'm having a very hard time looking at myself." "All right, lamppost scene number... 79." "It sounds like days and days of work, insurance, dangers, you know, like, I have a three days span of time to shoot this chase, and if I have her slipping all over the place" "in these harnesses and doing these tricky stunts, how can I possibly do it in that amount of time safely?" "He's saying there's no insurance, nobody cares." "They figure if they die maybe they come back as an eagle and it's all good." "There's no cause for concern." "I can have her get run over by a train." "She can slip under a train." "And if the guy dies, no big fucking deal." "It's karmic, right?" "So you get reborn." "So death is not like a big, bad thing." "If a stunt person decides to do a stunt," "That's still karmic destiny." "It's still karmic destiny." "The choice he made... was karmically his choice to make." "Was karmically his choice to make." "Well, okay." "Everybody dies, I mean, it's no big deal." "Whether you live for 20 years or you live for 80 years, cosmically speaking, it's just a flash." "You hear that?" "Oh." "Tap, tap tap." "In this, you want this by strength?" "Yeah is important." "More support here, more supporting." "Okay, so we can't shoot here." "I don't know." "It depends on how many people" "I have to bring with me and how many cars." "I need to... here's the most important thing:" "Is, if I say "no", it's because" "I need everyone to just focus on me only as director, not as anyone's mother, not as anything else, but it's me going," ""Does everybody get it?"" ""Don't say another word."" "In 16 days, I say "action" on a comedy horror film, action adventure, musical, love story, and I don't have anything to shoot." "I don't have things locked." "I don't have actors for certain things." "I've been told I have certain things that I don't." "Somebody needs to decide what's happening the next day and I need to know the night before what I'm doing." "And I don't want to complain." "You guys don't need to complain." "We all need to do something." "I shouldn't have any time to bitch." "I should be off to a location, you know?" "Or a back shot listing, or something, you know?" "So we need a plan and a schedule." "Everyone means so well." "It's so frustrating." "If they were assholes it would be different, but they're not." "They're these well-meaning, interested, passionate, creative people." "And yet, there's no... it's all so peaceful." "I think they honestly just do it differently." "I think that it's like the culture is so much more relaxed." "These are people that stop for tea, for Christ's sakes." "You know, we stop for tea." "Don't stick that up your nose." "It's not good." "Today is a loaded day;" "We have got to do a lot of things." "It's like, shadow is coming near so, we have got to lock everything." "We have come closer to shooting day." "Once the shooting begins, then everything starts rolling." "Rolling smoothly." "We have one minute and it's starting to drizzle." "One minute and it's drizzling." "What am I gonna do about rain?" "I'm powerless over the rain." "Give it a rainy feel." "Yeah, fine with me." "Just, I wanted the fires burning." "Because it makes all the sense, because the water fills up the burrows." "They come out, and then she wants to go to the warmth of the light." "Right, except that she was not in a burrow." "She was in an apartment." "And that, as far as any light she could choose, that's the smallest and the furthest away." "Yeah." "That's okay." "Yes, I agree, completely." "But we'll work with it." "So it playing, playing with shadow, tire, mud, mud with shadow, out, re-makeup for the pole." "All right gang, let's do it." "We've got half an hour to finish this, and that's it." "Keep going, keep going." "It's beautiful." "Keep pulling her, keep pulling her." "Beautiful." "Got it, got it, thanks." "We did everything we could do with what we had and that always works out." "It's all good." "Staying very positive." "So what he doesn't know, they want breakfast at seven and fruit salad at 10:30, the light men." "That's the demand." "And they want the working hours to be reduced from seven to six." "What?" "Yeah." "As Govind was saying..." "How you gonna get anything done?" "When will we shoot?" "So are we renting a bus, or are we going on a public bus?" "No, we're renting." "I didn't mean like the public packed and people hanging out the windows and stuff," "I meant like, a tour bus." "I know you wouldn't be doing it if you didn't have to, trust me." "We're taking a big hit." "I'm here to work." "I know what you're doing, so no sweat." "You're fun." "I know." "Will we get two buses, because of all the people?" "We have to look at the positive side, okay?" "Cause, trust me, I've taken a blow too." "But let's not worry about the bus ride, or the plane ride." "Let's just worry about making the film." "Cause that's what matters right now." "We'll all be safe." "I just gotta find a way to make the film." "I see what's happening, and you're 100% right." "If you keep biting her, I swear to god..." "He's not... it doesn't hurt." "It is on me." "We walk on that set and I look like a fucking idiot, and I don't make the movie, and I try and cover my ass." "All I'm doing is covering my ass instead of making the movie." "And I'm fucked." "This is the most publicized fucking thing" "I have ever been a part of, and I was a part of Boxing fucking Helena with a trial." "It's absurd." "I'm not even at day three of the shoot." "I've lost two days." "And now I'm moving everything?" "The whole thing is insane." "Maybe it's gonna force us into a different working style." "We have no way to know." "This is what I got as a schedule." "That's what's taped up there." "And it was handed to me with pride." "I don't want my name on it because I'm that concerned about getting what I want." "So would anyone even believe that you didn't direct it?" "No, they wouldn't." "This is the problem, it's what father did with Dune." "He took his name off of it." "Everybody knew he directed it and he didn't work again for ages." "I mean ages." "They sent him away to make Blue Velvet and that wasn't even supposed to be released." "But that was, it flat-lined." "My father didn't speak for almost a year." "And it was his third film." "I'm not making any parallels, but I know." "I was there for the fucking aftermath." "We're gonna... think there's a way to do it..." "It's just so absurd." "I'm making a movie about a fucking snake that turns into a woman who turns into a snake." "I gotta piece of shit over there with a Pamela Anderson shirt on it and I'm having a nervous breakdown because, like, I can't have fun with it?" "It's absurd." "It's absurd." "Where's the joy?" "How did it become this?" "How could it be this difficult?" "It's absurd." "And I'm sober?" "Are you kidding?" "Better?" "Sugar." "Don't refuse your mother a kiss." "I'll put you back in for another nine months." "Ever since I met you guys, I've always been confused as to who the mother and who the child is." "That's very funny." "Ho ho!" "That's very funny." "Because this is like..." "No, all this is is an issue of manners." "Careful." "Click." "Get up." "You're poorly, poorly directed." "I just want you to know that." "I know I'm going to stand up and..." "Next time you pitch a shit fit, you little pre-adolescent." "To you she's one person." "To me... ha, okay?" "I might as well be a dustbin." "And she's just pushin' that fuckin' thing open and throwin' crap in it all the time." "I survive it with humor, perhaps foul humor, but humor nonetheless." "This what we shooting today." "It's a complete Vikram Gupta house." "This is the first day of the Vikram Gupta house." "And the first shot we're shooting with Divya Dutta." "Bathroom scene." "And cut it." "Very nice, Divya, very nice." "Sweet ass little camera move, her crying, the baby's gone, oh my god!" "Clasping the chest, blood on you, blood here a mother's cry, a child's cry." "It was out of this world!" "Go back there feeling so good you can hardly stand yourself." "Go sit in the air conditioning feeling like you've just broken some world record for excellence." "We have a scene coming up where we have a sound effect of a baby crying in the distance with the wind in the trees, and we've already recorded some tree wind at the film city, so now we have, taa-daa." "This is how we do it in India, folks." "Nice man, so fun, so fun." "What else does he do?" "Have him do another noise." "The cat?" "Cat." "We push in, right?" "His version of prayer, because he's a man of science," "Is thought, right?" "So he's letting the water run all over him, okay?" "I'm a tall, handsome man, "run all over me"," ""run all over me." boom boom boom." "We can push in, push in, push in." "Still talkin'?" "Push in, push in, push in." "Right?" "We have it?" "We have a eureka moment," "Whether he pushes back, I'll let him do whatever he wants." "We'll frame it up." "Next shot is night." "But first we're doing this scene over here for daylight." "I know, I just wondered before that..." "You know that." "I was just testin' ya, Yogi." "Are we gonna have to hold for a puja or somethin'?" "Can we get on that?" "Now." "A blessing, and we need it." "God help us." "For starting." "A little left." "Start right there." "Light that freakin' camphor, and let's make a movie." "Now, I would say, let's be conscious of a couple things." "You can pick this up here, but put it in this hand..." "It's sacrilege?" "You're freakin' kidding me?" "Because this is the hand you wipe your butt with?" "So this is a problem." "Don't... have the lantern lit." "Lantern's lit already, and as we find her, she's pouring the milk." "And cut it." "Sold!" "It's a call sheet for the police station, tomorrow morning." "Super psyched!" "Thanks, you guys, so much!" "Akilesh Mishra, right here." "Call sheet master." "Call sheet master." "You guys." "Call sheet." "You're getting picked up at 6:30 tomorrow?" "And that's cool with me, man, cause I got a call sheet." "Well it is a very, very ambitious film." "I'll give you that two months ago." "In the sense that nobody has done this before in this country, ever." "Most exploitative." "Oh, come on." "It's an admiration of sensual, sexual female bravery." "Hello?" "Oh yeah?" "In India?" "Yeah, in India." "How about yesterday?" "It's about fuckin' time." "Yeah?" "And you just hate him." "Right, do you know this man?" "Do I?" "The sheet drops." "Foom." "I know." "Right." "No, it's horseshit." "I've never seen women squashed the way they are here." "It really freaks me out." "You get out of work." "People, the society rejects you." "So then what do you do?" "That's how it is." "Then you say, "Fuck society."" "It's my life." "It's hypocritical." "I mean I've pushed as much as I could." "But beyond this point, no." "I promise it'll be done tastefully." "Oh, that I know." "Yeah, I'm sure of that." "Come here." "Ready?" "Daddy?" "Where is father?" "My father?" "He's back home." "U.S.A.?" "Yes, U.S.A." "When we have this many people, we need to have then more people paying attention, how many people there are, yeah?" "Yeah." "Okay." "Thank you very much." "Thank you, everybody take five." "Thank you so much." "I love it." "These are the problems to have." "If you're going to have problems, have film making problems." "We're not going to be back..." "I'm not going to be able to go back to school with my head straight, ever." "And if at all, November." "November, December." "Two months of school?" "That's a waste of time." "No it's not." "It will enrich you." "It will enrich me with nothing." "School, it enriches you with nothing." "She could go home and go to school." "She wouldn't be alone." "What, if you had a husband?" "Yeah." "If I had a partner of any kind, of any kind, on any level." "I just cannot, cannot fathom the idea that I can't work and have a lover at the same time." "That makes absolutely no sense to me." "None." "None." "Why is that?" "Men work and have lovers all the fuckin' time." "All the time." "Work and lovers." "Then they shit and eat." "What exactly is the problem?" "Why can't I have that?" "I'm someone's mother and father, you know?" "More pressure." "I'm, yeah, writing and directing." "I want to have friends in my life too." "It can't just be people I sleep with." "That doesn't entirely fulfill me." "But if, given the option," "I like to be having sex twice a day, and working all day every day." "So that, time off actually feels like time off, feels like free time." "And everything else is like gravy." "Sydney, you want to play?" "What do I do?" "You hit it." "It'll fly." "Then hit it again in the air." "Same thing." "If you miss it, you're gone, you're out." "No clue what I'm doing." "Nothing." "Just hit a stick and hit it again." "Tap, tap." "I'm playing the character of Oma, and he's trying to rape a girl, and the nagin, nagin bites and he's all over." "That's all." "I'll leave the lashes for last because it blocks his vision." "I'm looking great now." "Fabulous!" "Oh my god, you look gorgeous." "I've never seen anyone look better dead in my life." "11." "Day 11." "And these are my first rushes." "I hope they're good." "Yeah?" "Good." "Let's shoot it." "Tell them to watch their breathing." "Hold your breath." "Hold your breath." "Cut it." "Thank you, thank you." "Very hard work, very well done." "Okay, She's fainted, she's fainted." "Everybody out, out, out, out." "She gonna throw up?" "It's okay." "We gotcha." "Take a deep breath, okay?" "Don't shake her too much." "Just take a deep breath." "Carry down." "Straight down on her side, go ahead." "Just sit down, sweetie, you're good." "Sugar water." "Open." "We need a medic on set." "We called for a doctor right now." "I asked these guys." "They said she just felt a little dizzy and she's okay now." "She was unconscious for like seven, eight minutes." "Sorry, that just scared the hell out of me." "That would scare anybody." "Can't leave this." "Everything." "Everything, everything, everything, everything, everything." "All of it." "All the little pieces matter." "We need to just learn to use a dustbin, that's all." "No, I mean, but here's the deal:" "We have no business speaking of gods and loving the Earth, if this is what we fucking do to it." "No business." "It's okay." "Like I'm not pretending." "It should matter." "I don't mind doing it." "I want them to eat so they're ready, and I want to do this, okay?" "Please tell them they're not going to get..." "No, no, no." "No threatening." "No, no, no." "No threatening." "It's not about threatening, okay?" "Just about, when we leave here tonight we should only leave a clean space, that's all I ask." "Nobody else has to do it." "I want everybody else to eat." "Okay?" "I just want to do it so that I don't feel like crap." "Cause I'm standing up, being a big ego American." "I'm making a film about not hurting people, and we're shittin' on the Earth." "So just let me sleep tonight, that's all I ask." "Thank you very much." "Okay, okay, okay." "It's okay." "Please sit, please." "Please sit." "So this is the way it always is, no matter where she is?" "If she's shooting?" "Well it's a very good question." "Cause Mallika's used to this." "Is your back okay, mom?" "Yeah." "Nobody's saying anything to you." "Mallika's knows she got mobbed." "She had her own little version of a mob, which was upsetting." " Who?" " Sydney." "And then I got my hair pulled and pins stuck in my back." "Outside, you shoot anywhere where Bollywood is, like down south they have their own industry, so there wasn't a problem." "Right." "They have their own movie stars, down south." "But north or Bombay, you shoot anywhere, you will be faced with this." "I'm on the adventure." "I want to leave the adventure with a film." "That's all I ask, is that I leave the adventure with a film." " So I need..." " Be positive." "I'm totally being positive!" " You know me." " Exactly." "I just want the protection of production." "Coasters, tilt down, one pass." "Or we'll never get this." "Never gonna happen." "And I'm not going to wait and try and accept the things I cannot change, and have the courage to change the things that I can." " This is coming down?" " Tilt down, tilt down." "Tilt down, boom." "All right?" "Out he goes." "I don't fucking doubt it." "What I'm telling you, too, is" "I'll figure out how to work that, but at the same time, we're also on a severely, extremely exciting, but ambitious project." "I hear you with the two shots in five hours, but I guarantee you, I didn't set out to take two shots in five hours today." "But, we were all here." "Everybody was here, every thing was here, and yet, still, it didn't happen." "So the frustration is immense, tempers are high, it's kind of a nightmare, but I'm going to look back on it and laugh." "Unfortunately I'm going to look back on it and laugh without certain shots." "It's a three million dollar movie." "It's going to look like a three million dollar movie." "We'll try to make it look like a 10 million dollar movie." "But we're not going to be able to make this look like a 500 million dollar movie." "It's not gonna look like Titanic." "And the effort to do that is screwing up the scenes." "And if you can't hack it, quit." "And cut it." "Beautiful." "Commandment one:" "And if I see your mom's stressed out, the main person that I blame is you." "See, do your friends' parents take their kids to office?" "When they're working, do they come and do it?" " Yes." " Yes." "They do." "Well I don't agree with that." "But that's not when I'm working." "See, it's work, this is work." "We can accept that, for now." "This is not asking too much, is it?" "And stillness." "And cut it." "Beautiful!" "Okay, let's move on." "One more for focus." "No, no, nothing more." "It's out of focus." "Govind, Govind, that's what we're ending on." "Okay, but the minute you and I start doing this without consulting each other, it's going to be a problem." "So, just..." "It's gonna rain." "Turn around." "Two minutes it's gonna rain." "I don't doubt it." "I'm just saying I don't have that." "That's my end." "Okay, one more, let's do it fast!" "Ready, ready!" "And roll sound." "Sound's rolling." "Take two." "Roll camera!" "Action!" "And cut it." "Cut it!" "Got the shot, though." "Okay, and then we... slightly wider of her looking at them as they cross, and a tight." "Silence!" "Quiet please!" "Look at that beautiful rain." "Perfect." "When the universe forces you to adapt, you get better things." "And you do adapt." "You just can't fight with each other." "You've got to stay at peace." "Okay, okay thank you." "Woo!" "Here we go, let's make a movie." "Okay, let's go for another take." "Thank you Mallika." "Okay, you're confusing me." "Don't eat my brain." "I checked here." "Watch." "So, right here." "This one I didn't." "Just getting pictures for the kids to go," ""Look at these giant bats!"" "Unfortunately, you can't really tell the size." "And what do I do?" "You just have to do that." "You're just supposed to do that." "Thank you." "There's an issue." "You're furious." "There's all this tension." "The second you see her there's tension." "I can feel it, and so can she, okay?" "Because she's not listening." "Special effects guys, that's their space." "It's not American hang-out space." "It's their area" " I gotcha." "They do their thing." "And we just leave them alone." "And I've got a lot riding on this." "I know." "Because I've invested a huge amount of money on these guys." "I know." "And I'm fucking shit scared." "I'm a paranoid wreck." "If she's upset at somebody else, or uncomfortable about something else, then my whole fuckin' world turns to shit." "Because this doesn't make sense to her, so she's tired and she's far away from home, and it's almost her birthday, and I'm shooting on it." "No, it's... everybody's under so much stress." "It's like..." "What did I do?" "You didn't do anything." "We'll talk about it afterwards, I promise, okay?" "I'm trying to be okay." "No, I think we should save the fangs for when it's vibrating." "But thank you for the option." "Right on, Dave!" "Better blood than vodka." "Now we're makin' a fuckin' horror movie." "Yeah!" "Okay." "Real still, that's okay, let it." "Oh, my god, it's." "That's okay, I know, it's beautiful." "It's beautiful." "Let it be." "I salute you, and ma'am." "I know, it's fantastic, let's go." "Very nice." "Cut it please, thank you." "Ladies and gentlemen, bravo, very good day!" "Woo!" "Back up!" "Thank you so much, thank you." "Just show me how much you're willing to give up your life for the children's." "Yeah?" "And you know he's only hitting you because he's in pain." "But this is your relationship." "This is the choice you've made." "It's a real thing, yeah, yeah." "And stare at each other." "See in his eyes the pain, and you see what you're doing too." "She's your mirror." "And you love him." "I want to love her." "You love her a lot." "You love her a lot, and that kills you." "And it kills you to love her." "And it kills you to love the kids, but you're so filled with rage and sorrow, and pain," "And so when the kids say, "Not without you."" ""I don't want to go in without you, mommy", then that breaks your heart more, and you want to go in after the kids." "Don't make me feel anything." "You don't want to feel anything." "You're trying not to feel anything, but you feel so much." "That face is beautiful, Sonny." "Superb, superb." "Tell her to go inside, inside." "Cut it!" "You smack this thing away, okay?" "You're groping at her, "What's this?"" ""What's this?" right?" "She's trying to listen." "Now, she's going, "What is this?"" "She doesn't know what this is, but she knows suddenly that it's a violation." "And you're like, "what, what, what?"" "And she makes this noise." "She can't speak." "And you go, "Oh ho, oh, a retard."" ""What are you, a fuckin' retard?" ""Oh, hey, can you hear me?" ""Bring me a fuckin' beer, bitch.", right?" "You just start goin' at her and groping at her, and having at her until, bang, bang, you have emotionally, between you and your friend, driven this poor creature into a corner." "Yeah?" "Super cool." "Super cool." "We'll have fun." "Pretty much all the color is put into red." "I know, look out." "You're stuck with me forever now." "Yeah." "I'm going to come to your house someday and be like, "remember me", and you'll be like, "No."" "No, no, no." "You'll say "Remember me?"" "I'll say, "Oh my god, I love you."" "You men, you're all liars." "If I say, you all womans are liars." "Oh, please." "Why do you think I raised a child alone?" "Cause you men are." "You have to trust me." "You don't have any other option." "I don't have any other option." "Right?" "Yeah, I guess not." "Why didn't you slap me?" "I told you to slap me and cut the throat." "Cut it." "I'm not a machine." "I can't replicate all this." "Why didn't you slap me?" "Slap." "Let's do the slap." "That was beautiful." "They aren't gonna slap me!" "Is this a joke, Jennifer?" "No." "Not at all." "Have we come here on a picnic?" "Not a picnic I've been invited to." "I want to hear that slap in my ears." "I want to see." "But then you can't slap you over her and then put a face." "And put a face what?" "Is that enough?" "Or, or..." "Cause if he starts doing it sooner," "If you start doing it sooner, and it's a," "You know, okay, and it's like this, then it's constant, constant constant." "Okay, just like that, yeah?" "Just back here, boom, boom, boom." "Then it's okay for you, there's no marks, but it's just as abusive." "Exactly." "It's all right, keep going." "Cut it." "Freeze for stills and continuity." "Indian two minutes is five minutes, please." "All L.A. people." "No, a Yogi two minutes is five minutes." "Indian two minutes is 15 to 20." "Isn't that crazy?" "Crazy, man." "After this, no man's gonna come near me." "Oh please." "There gonna be knockin' your fuckin' door down." "You've made sure of that." "I have not." "This is for everybody out there who doesn't have one and who wants it." "Oh, stop it." "Okay." "Yes Jennifer." "What do you want me to do?" "Just give me that ass, you know." "We all know how our butt looks the best." "Show me your butt." "You're in the heels." "We're gonna do this." "Yeah?" "Just show me it." "I can't look at it enough." "Final touches on the rear!" "And really rub that body." "Feel being a snake, finally home." "And up, and cut it." "Beautiful." "Cut it." "Very nice." "Shadow was beautiful, Madhu." "Bob, gorgeous!" "13!" "Aww, 13 in India, yeah!" "Speech, speech, speech." "I don't know what to say." "What do you want to do in the next year of your life?" "I really have no clue." "Spoken like a true teenager." "Woo!" "Join the club." "Neither do I." "Bravo." "Everybody eat cake." "I can't do it." "Come on, open your mouth." "Okay." "First frame." "Makin' a movie, here we go." "First frame." "I'm not making another film without you guys." "Krishna, I'm too fat." "But thank you." "Okay." "Krishna's wife must be a very happy woman." "* Hare Hare Krishna" "* Krishna Krishna" "* Hare hare" "* Hare Krishna." "Whatever it is that I normally do to take care of myself goes right out the window in India." "If I weren't working, or didn't have to work," "I'd be under the covers for at least three days." "Against the wall." "Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah." "No, cause that doesn't make any sense." "It doesn't make any sense." "Right there." "No, no, no." "Stop, stop, stop." "You're seeing exhaustion." "Govind." "That's completely, no, no, no." " No." " Yeah," "That's what that was." "Let's get this done, and let's get it done calmly." "Don't burn your arm." "Arm, arm, this right one." "Okay, ready, we can't wait anymore." "Who knows how the fuck it will turn out." "No biggie." "It's only my third, and hopefully not last, film." "Whatever." "About a woman who's a snake." "And I'm 40 and single." "That's cool, that's my own baggage." "I haven't been laid in like 400 fuckin' years." "I don't even want to think about it." "I just want to get the day." "I just want to be happy." "There's such beautiful work in the day." "And I'm trying to stay in that, and yet, for some reason..." "Jennifer?" "Yes Mallika?" "Come and take a look, please." "Come an take a look." "Coming in." "Are you dewy?" "Roll sound." "Roll camera." "What are you gonna do?" "Look what they're doing." "Warriors." "We'll do yogi also." "Let's all worship." "Stop it." "There's a TV camera here, stop it." "And, right over here." "Perfect." "Do you like my path, though?" "Do you like my little veins of mud that I made?" "Oh my god, Mallika, say something nice about my mud path." "You're crazy, you don't have to do this." "Yes I do." "Why?" "Cause they wouldn't have done it the way I wanted it." "It was all green." "I needed mud that was safe and allowed... to have here, and would match." "Call the still photographer." "Let's not waste time." "[Jennifer} Stills!" "Stop gossiping." "What's the name of the still photographer?" "Stop gossiping and do some work." "Get on that stool and click." "Ready?" "Get it and stop." "Too long we're shooting them just flashing." "One fast shot and here we go." "Cut, cut, cut." "Don't move." "You know, I don't want to blow my own horn, but I don't know anybody else" "who would have bent the way I bent, and adapted the way I've adapted, and made use of what I have, and then MacGuyvered the rest of it." "There's a real tendency in all of us now to not even see how great it is, the stuff that we're shooting." "The cyclone." "Of course it is." "The sky is striking now." "The sky is striking." " Here, I want you to be warm." " Huh?" "I want you to be warm." "I'm not cold." "I'm hot." "It's hot in here." "Cover everything up." "I hate being on this set." "I need more blessings than anybody else right now." "You need to have your whole face be yellow." "I need to get like, seriously..." "Mallika?" "This is a snake temple thing?" "Yeah." "And you have got to get the big one." "Nice." "Very cool." "Right on." "I'm initiated." "Bahamas." "Yeah, Bahamas." "It depresses me, to see all the poverty here, and see people like that, early morning." "It's depressing, isn't it?" "But I think they're happier than you think." "Do they?" "Yeah." "They don't look very happy." "They smile at me." " Yeah?" " Yeah." "Leo, this is for Govind Menon." "The lion, Leo." ""Your success depends a lot on how you feel about your life"" ""and this is the area you look into this morning."" ""This day may cause a little jealousy in the workplace."" ""Use these days to find resolution and compromise"" ""instead of dwelling in the conflict and opposition."" "Cut it!" "Let's not take chances with the Muslims." "We need all the good luck we can get." "We have to wait for her." "Fine, half an hour." "There's got to be an easier way than the 18 shots that are planned for here." "18?" "Well, I'm probably exaggerating, but I wouldn't be surprised." "No way we can get that." "Come on, let's do it, let's do it." "That's a perfect position." "Fresh tomatoes, fresh blood, just before the shot." "Junior artists in place, please." "Come on, come on guys, let's move it." "Move the fuck... just move it." "Everybody in place." "Just do the shot." "Everybody's in place." "You know the chop, chop, chop, chop, chop, chop, of India is not what Jen, Jen, Jen, Jen wants to do." "Tell them that." "You know what, I defer." "I'm going to go ahead and deal with the emotional stuff." "Parvez is directing this." "I'm deferring." "I'm going to go ahead..." "I'll talk to the actors when the actors require me to speak to them, and that is the only time I will do anything from here on out." "There are too many cooks in the fuckin' kitchen." "Done." "I want to go home." "I never want to go home." "I never want to go home." "I want to go home." "Silence and roll cameras." "Action!" "Cut it." "Beautiful." "I've sweat a lot, but I haven't pissed in a long time." "But I mean a long time, and I've had to pee." "It's not like I don't have to pee." "So, right after I quit, I pissed in my pants, just enough to make it embarrassing." "Just enough to have to stand over in that alley for a minute, like, regroup." "But I still gotta really pee." "It was just that was a tease." "It was a tease." "My whole crotch area and bladder are like." "I woke up with a headache." "I woke up with a backache, but Surveillance won best picture at the Spain Film Festival." "Yeah, oh ahh." "I'm supposed to be there." "I wasn't there." "Guys, no, no, no." " Let's applause." " No, no, no." "I'm going to say let's give a clap." "No." "No, no, no." "No, no, no." "No, no, no." "Clap for Jennifer, everyone." "Her movie won the best drama in Spain festival." "All right, let's make this movie." "Today's a special day." "Every day's a great day, Yogi." "God is great." "Yogi's great." "Spain!" "We're flying to Spain, for evening." "Yeah." "Alpha female." "Alpha." "It's very Bollywood." "Yeah, I like this." "This is mayhem." "India, isn't it beautiful?" "That's beautiful, look at that." "Oh, my god, that's crazy." "Can I adopt you?" "No, you can't adopt me." "Why?" "Because, you're more my brother than my father." "Yeah?" "Yeah." "Older brother, though." "Yeah, by what?" "Six weeks?" "Huh?" "No, I'm 42." "Cut it." "Super beautiful!" "That was it." "That's heartbreaking." "Yeah?" "That was heartbreaking." "Pop that, yeah, we'll pop that light on." "Do one with that, and you're done." "Okay." "Beautiful, super beautiful." "Just do that again." "Yeah." "That's the ticket." "I'm glad." "You're in great spirit today." " Yeah." " Yeah." "Happy to go back?" "No, Jim, just Jim." "I could be here another six months and I'd be happy cause of Jim." "Jim, baby, this one's for you motherfucker." "* My wanderer has returned home" "* Quenching the thirst of my heart." "Thank you so much." "Thank you, okay, okay." "Jim "matiri"." "Jim "matiri"." "Jim "matiri"." "Jim "matiri"." "Jim "matiri"." "Jim "matiri"." "Look at that blue." "The most beautiful blue." "Nobody told me this was going to be... you know..." "Now I know why they say, "God, nobody shoots there."" "My god, it's so beautiful, how could you not shoot the Dhobi Ghat?" "Well." "Shoot India." "But look at them, you can't make this shit up." "It's old and new." "The next 20 years is going to change India." "This shit won't be happening." "We get to see it, that's what's so cool." "It's right... 20 years, 20 years from now." "It'll all be, you know." "We're going to ruin it." "By bringing in the new." "I mean, It'll be good, but I doubt this woman will be doing that in 20 years." "I have no business ever complaining about my job." "Not one little bit of business." "I don't even know what a bad day is." "It's all relative, sure, but I don't even know what a bad day is." "Hard for me is completely different than hard for them." "And yet we're the same living creatures with beating hearts and families and all this other stuff we want to do but like..." "So I'm at the Dhobi Ghat, filled with gratitude." "People hand me coffee and I get to yell in Hindi, kiss boys." "What could be bad?" "Go see daddy!" "Hi, hi." "Hopefully everything you do is worth losing' your shit over because you're doing it, and quite often you'll lose your shit while you're doing it, so... like love, and dishes." "And driving your teenager around." "Or driving you around." "Yeah." "Yeah, Syd drives now." "Going to look at my subject only." "Don't make the face." "This is my regular face." "Okay, enough." "Right, I'm going to draw you." "All right now don't look at the paper." "Okay." "Look how big your brain is." "I look like Roy Orbison." "All right, I'm done." "That's me." "Oh how fabulously abstract." "What's changed in my I now have very complete family." "You know it used to be really difficult trying to get some girlfriend to watch these fucked up movies with me." "And I was like, "oh my god"," ""she makes fucked up movies."" ""This is awesome."" "I was very hurt for a long time." "I used to dream about what the film could have been, or would be." "I think that it's impossible to make something and work as hard or passionately," "or hard and passionately on something without both waking and sleeping dreams" "about what it will be, should be, could be." "I don't really dream about it anymore." "I wouldn't trade it." "I wouldn't trade a single minute of it, in fact." "I would make some different choices and then," "I'd make some of the same ones, over and over again, I'm sure." "* My wanderer has returned home" "* Quenching the thirst of my heart *"