Martina McBride | Cry On The Shoulder Of The Road | RCA Records watch
An interview with Danny McBride who plays Jim Miller in Up in the Air:
1. On his character
2. On Jim's state of mind
3. On Melanie Lynskey's character
4. On Jason Reitman's style watch
I came up with the idea for WATCHING A MOVIE and everyone I knew told me not to make it. "That sounds pretty bad, Evan," was the common refrain. Others told me "it should be a short." Nobody really understood that in order for the film to work (a movie about a guy making a movie about himself watching a movie), it had to be a feature. You had to feel this guy's agony as he tries to work with people that didn't share his vision. You had to watch him as he watches a screen for 10 minutes at a time without any dialogue. I was inspired by Andy Warhol's EMPIRE movie and Jim McBride's DAVID HOLZMAN'S DIARY. The script was written, the actors were cast and the shoot took place over two weekends at my parents' house. Everything went like clockwork and when the film was wrapped, I had about two hours' worth of footage that needed minimal editing. As I sat in the editing suite in Pasadena, CA, the person who I was paying to let me use his system walked in at one point, watched one scene and mutt watch
