And to top off what he said about scenes being cut from films, sometimes the most creative ideas come from not being able to do everything a director wants to do. I am a huge Back to the Future fan as well (which will, thankfully, never have a director's cut/special edition), and that movie originally ended with Doc and Marty having to go to a nuclear test site in Nevada to have a nuclear bomb power the time machine to get back to 1985. But budget forced them to shoot that scene on the back lot. After much thinking, Zemeckis and Gale finally came up with the now-legendary clock tower/lightning bolt sequence that they admit was much better than what the nuclear test site idea could have been. But I have a feeling that if George had made that movie, after he had become successful, he would have gone back in and redone it that way because he didn't have the time, money, or technology to make it that way back then. Digital technology and complete control over movies is good for directors because it allows their imagination to come through unaltered. But at the same time, it's sad because it doesn't allow them to come up with creative solutions to problems anymore, which may turn out better than if they hadn't had any inhibitions.
And to top off what he said about scenes being cut from films, sometimes the most creative ideas come from not being able to do everything a director wants to do. I am a huge Back to the Future fan as well (which will, thankfully, never have a director's cut/special edition), and that movie originally ended with Doc and Marty having to go to a nuclear test site in Nevada to have a nuclear bomb power the time machine to get back to 1985. But budget forced them to shoot that scene on the back lot. After much thinking, Zemeckis and Gale finally came up with the now-legendary clock tower/lightning bolt sequence that they admit was much better than what the nuclear test site idea could have been. But I have a feeling that if George had made that movie, after he had become successful, he would have gone back in and redone it that way because he didn't have the time, money, or technology to make it that way back then. Digital technology and complete control over movies is good for directors because it allows their imagination to come through unaltered. But at the same time, it's sad because it doesn't allow them to come up with creative solutions to problems anymore, which may turn out better than if they hadn't had any inhibitions.