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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Maybe one principle is that it’s possible to (partially) delegate to someone else who is themselves Michelangelo-like in that way.
Like: maybe Wes Anderson’s set dressers are just as visionary and obsessive as he is, so he can let them do some of the “painting”?
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I sometimes wonder what would happen if films allowed for one persons obsessive crafting over years. Even animation seems like it requires too much expertise in too many tools and areas for it to be manageable by one person?
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You might enjoy The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness on Miyazaki. It’s shocking how much he does himself! He’s personally drawing so much by hand—it’s wild.