Whats the difference between directing a short film to making a full-length feature?
MM: I don’t know what the difference is usually, but for me it was that I didn’t take enough control over the short in lots of ways. I didn’t step up to the plate enough or talk to enough of the crew and the production designer. I was kinda a bit too lazy on it in lots of ways. With Bruges I was determined that if my name was gonna be on it I had to take control over each department and have more of an input. That was the biggest thing. Plus an awful lot more work and an awful lot more time out of your life basically. It was two years ago when the wheels were set in motion on this and tomorrow’s my last day on it, so basically so it’s like getting out of school! There was also so much more about the characters and the back story, so we had three weeks of rehearsal before we started shooting In Bruges. It was pretty much me, Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson just chatting in a room and drinking a lot of coffee for three weeks! That’s when I realised that I was bringing stuff from my pas
