I think for most of us who spend a ton of time thinking about shit all the time, you get sidetracked to life. Jury duty, car issues, and the like. The fact that anyone can conjure up anything creative says a lot about the tenacity you need to get anywhere in filmmaking. It's fucking hard.
After all the energy, anger, moving at break neck speed...it all comes down to a few minutes in front of people. I'm sure when J.J. Abrams showed "Star Wars: Force Awakens" after two years of toil, it must've sent him into a dark spiral after everything was said and done. History was made, people liked it or didn't. It wasn't a movie, it was an event. And it all seemed so far away now. To me, I get massively drained from the anticipation. Is it a letdown? I don't know. I think there are a lot of filmmakers who refuse to finish their movies because they may never want it to end. Michael Mann seems like that type of person. If commerce wasn't an obstacle, he'd still be cutting "Last Of The Mohicans." It must drive someone like him crazy once the movie goes out to the public. A lot of people who say...the movie is no longer yours. Even after finishing a project that isn't mine, but I was involved, I feel their pain when they have to let go. It seems to equate to that feeling of the last day of school as a senior in high school. Your friends move on. Maybe never to be heard from again. We grow older. And do other projects and the cycle continues again. The smart ones never let that get them. They simply move on to the next thing.
The emotional roller coaster one needs to endure through the process of storytelling isn't for the easily distracted. To be truthful, it's easier to keep starting something new than to put a period at the end of your sentence. In that sense, it's closer to admitting that the movie is complete.
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