Cronenberg did confess that he never storyboards, including the infamous sauna fight in Eastern Promises where a naked Mortensen battles two Russian mafiosi in a bath house. “People think my films are very controlled,” said Cronenberg. “They probably imagine I do many storyboards, [but] I’m a totally anti-storyboard person. What I do is I prepare the field for play. You get the players, you get the field, but you don’t know what’s going to happen.” For the sauna fight, he shot a master then captured different angles of the sauna room one corner at a time section to take advantage of serendipity. Cronenberg quoted control freak-director Orson Welles: “A film is a collection of accidents.”