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!
Conversation
Considerations:
Great directors routinely say they only get about half of what they want in a film.
Film makes it easy to evaluate the work of hundreds of people in an instant. The director can look at a shot and know if it’s right or not. Not all mediums allow for this.
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