> How you stitch each of those together into a seamless ever-changing story is the magic... Unfortunately, it is a lesser magic to the one I naively believed i

> How you stitch each of those together into a seamless ever-changing story is the magic... Unfortunately, it is a lesser magic to the one I naively believed in: that of genius directors who have fully-formed visions they bring on screen, and world class actors who need 2 or 3 takes tops. It was all very idealized, and in my defense, I was very young. Now I enjoy deconstructing tools of trade on some movies on a second watch: paying attention to camera angles, composition, color grading and sound. The only thing I regret is learning about the Wilhelm scream, because it always destroys my suspension of disbelief, and I hear it more often than I'd like.