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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Have you read Guide for the Perplexed? The first decade of Herzog's career at the very least involved him working inhuman hours to commit his visions to film.
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It’s incredibly inspiring.