You cannot invite people that you trust and then untrust them Alfonso Cuarón, Alejandro Iñárritu, James Cameron, Ryan Johnson, Steven... Ho…

You cannot invite people that you trust and then untrust them Alfonso Cuarón, Alejandro Iñárritu, James Cameron, Ryan Johnson, Steven... How to make your work better? Show it to people you trust. Guillermo Del Toro recommends: 14-16 people. And agree to be honest — How do you hand in the final cut? Is it easy for you or are you just like, I want to change something? — No, no, well, both, 50-50. I kept editing. What I do is because we don't test the movies, I show it to the 14, 16 most brilliant friends I know, and I'm blessed with good friendships, and they tell me. Tell me about who are some of those friends. Oh, they're in the credits. But Alfonso Cuaron, Alejandro Iñárritu, Jim Cameron, Ryan Johnson, Stephen, a lot of people see the movie and they tell me what they think. And we have the agreement to be brutal. We have to say, like Jim came in and he said, look, there's this section which is not in the movie anymore. This is beautiful, but you've got to take it out. And it was about seven minutes. — Did it take him convincing you to do it? Or were you like, yeah, that makes sense? — No, when somebody gives me a note that is in that circle, I do it. I don't argue. And then I see it, and I say, look, it held, it didn't hold. Because you cannot invite people that you trust and then untrust them. You do it. You can undo it very easily. Aside from the team, I showed my latest work to only 6 friends. So now I have plans after the holidays