"A film should not be an airline meal," says director Paul Greengrass in the current issue of Time magazine. "It should not be prepacked." He was speaking especially about the latest (and probably last) Jason Bourne film, "The Bourne Ultimatum," which I'm looking forward to seeing.
The article, by Rebecca Winters Keegan, points out, "The Bourne process is, as any film school professor will tell you, the absolutely wrong way to make an action movie. The process, as Greengrass describes it:
"You lay down a story, you've got to have some core objectives and some core sense of what your sequences are gonna be, and then you really have to move forward and start to make it and trust that in the process you'll find it."
It's the opposite of, say, the Hitchcock approach of total planning ahead, and, the article points out, this process works only because the director and the star trust each other.