I do the exact same thing, except that instead of writing down those words, I write the final draft in the edit room. It really is the same.”

There is such raging ignorance on so many topics here, I scarcely know where to begin. Her grasp of Mike Leigh’s method is absurd. Leigh works with his actors for months at a time before he writes a single word, and while his scripts are based on those improvisations, the writing is all his. The idea that he just writes down what they say has to stand as one of the most laughably ignorant comments ever made about this great and unique filmmaker, whose work Shelton isn’t fit to comment on, let alone compare her own to.

Her notion that you can write the final draft in editing explains most of the problems with Humpday. This kind of dismissive attitude towards writers is typical of lazy, egomaniacal directors, who just want to race to the finish line without doing the work. This is an absurd person who will be a distant memory before the year is over.