Quoted by Ryan on January 31 2011:
If you hold out with your vision a little bit, it’s like a cake being put in the oven. The scene doesn’t work immediately, you have to bake it a little bit. It’s unfair, when you begin to create a shot, say, or a scene, that it’s going to immediately be like those beautiful scenes in the movies. It needs a little bit of time to mature. It’s like taking the cake out without letting it be in the oven for more than a minute. Like, oh no, it’s terrible. So you have to be patient, and then slowly everyone starts to see that the ideas are right, or make the corrections. You have to battle the lack of confidence by giving the scene the chance to solidify.
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Francis Ford Coppola on directing and collaborating. It’s as true for directing products as it is for directing scenes. Source.
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Paul 31 Jan 11
Very true. I do lights and sounds for a local theatre company and I regularly get to see this happen. It can take a long time before what actually happens on stage matches the ambitions of the director and actors.
It’s taken me a long time to get to the point where I can watch early rehearsals and not worry that the end result is going to be aweful.
Ed Tennant 01 Feb 11
You still need a good recipe ;-)
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