Word: planning
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...Pearce scene was there from the beginning. That was actually always designed to be cast by a name. This is not a technique that we invented - Hitchcock is famous for it, in Psycho - but that was always the plan. You kill the famous person and it's very destabilizing. You think the movie is about the first person you see, and then they die, and 10 minutes in, you have the same sense of unpredictability that the other soldiers have. You identify with them, but you're not really sure who's the most valuable to the story, because...
...that Avatar has surpassed Titanic as the highest-grossing film ever, do you plan to take another 12-year break? -Gerardo Valero, Mexico City [Laughs.] I didn't plan on taking 12 years last time, but my current plan is not to take 12 years. If not an Avatar film, then something like that because the enthusiasm and passion and the capability of that team make me want to do another film like this pretty much right away...
2.FM: What was your fallback plan, if that hadn’t worked out? Is there another field that you would have gone into...
...There was no plan [laughs]...I was just going in every direction and waiting for something to choose me, and that was the first thing that came along that actually broke out. I mean, I was writing corporate media films, and that was never something I wanted to do for a living. It was just better than flipping pizzas...
...last available official figures put Iran's economic growth at just 2.5% for the first half of the Iranian year (March-August 2009) - far short of the 8% targeted in Iran's fourth Economic Development Plan, which ends this year. Despite the apparent unknowability of third-quarter statistics, figures closely associated with growth - capital investment and permits for new construction projects - showed double-digit declines. Overall unemployment stood at 11.3%, while the out-of-work figure for those between the ages of 15 and 24 was estimated to be just over 24%. Real unemployment figures, however, are suspected...