jon: yeh, they were! they wasted so much money. when i was making it, they told me to make a 57-minute long movie so i finished terminal u.s.a, they were cutting the negatives, the movie's about to be done, then i get a phone call from the main office and said, "oh, we made a clerical mistake...uh, it's not supposed to be 57 minutes, it's supposed to be 54 minutes long." i was like, i'm in the final sound mix, how can i change this? and they were like, "well, it's only 3 minutes." and i said, "that's like telling an architect or someone who's built a house that the ceiling is 3 inches too low...and it cost about $10,000 to fix the mistake...so what i ended up doing was speeding up the movie slightly to get the 57 minutes down to 54...so on the censored version, things moved a little bit faster than they should...it's pretty funny, but you can't notice it.
GR: that sucks...because they had control over this?
jon: yeh, it was hard because i was sorta working with a committee of people and these were the people looking over my shoulder, and saying "you can't do that" or "you can't say that"...an example of how screwed up they were, i sent in my final script and they selected it to be made into a tv show. then about 2 months later, right when we're right about to start filming it, they called me up and were like, "you aren't going to do everything on the script are you?" and i was like, "well yeh, you approved it 2 months ago!" and it turned out that they approved it but they hadn't read it...and 2 months later, they got around to reading it and got all freaked out and was like, "are you really going to make the movie that you wrote down on the script?" i was like, "yeh, why did you guys approve it if you had problems?" it's just the whole bureaucracy...it's just lame...yeh, after terminal, i was like, man, i don't wanna make any movies this way again cos its just a waste of money!
