Alan Kay suggests that good inventors are like Michelangelo, both imagining the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel—and also spending years on their back painting it! Part visionary, part obsessive craftsperson.
I wonder about auteurs in film—hundreds of staff doing detail work!
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Right, but surely even he has tons of staff! What about the mixing engineer? The gaffers? Where can you draw the line?
percentage of significant decisions taken by director varies a lot. David Fincher, David Cameron, and Stanley Kubrick would have very skilled department heads, too, but take a lot of decisions in all of those departments.
Dept heads produce a v1, execute on the director's v2, 3
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directors are bottlenecks on the decisionmaking+coordination factories that sets are. the only way out is prep: youtu.be/AaNsK-6QYzM?t=
Really good crew executes well what dept heads simulate as a mix between their experience and the director's vision (or their likely v2)
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Shane Curruth did basically everything on Primer, and though rough around the edges, is still masterful.
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