there were two or three scenes in england once we landed, but the added thing was that debra isenbergen had outlined an idea. and each scene each day had the outlines of an idea but no script. so we made it up as we went along. >> stephen: so how would they do it? would they hand you your intention or something? how do you know where you're going? >> well, you have where you're supposed to end up, the sort of result that needs to happen at the end of the scene. but how you get there was just individually up to the actors that were in the scene. so it was really fun and really lively, and they're very bright, interesting, imaginative people thathat i was working with. it was a kick, but it was terrifying. >> stephen: i was wondering because, you know, a lot of directors and actors using improvisation in the rehearsal process to find the roots of intention and stuff like that. but had you done a whole movie that was essentially improvised like that before? >> no, who has? i certainly never made a movie in eight days either. >> stephen: and chronological because basically t what's happen