I think once you've finished a movie you really have to detach from it so that you can come back and watch it as an audience member.
Visual storytelling of one kind or another has been around since cavemen were drawing on the walls.
Stanley Kubrick was a big inspiration. People accuse me of never using my own material. But when did Kubrick? You look at his films and they are completely unique... completely separate entities.
Some of us have great original ideas and some of us depend on adaptations.
