"I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians."
"So give yourself that chance to put together the 80, 90 pages of a draft and then read it very in a nice little ceremony, where you're comfortable, and you read it and make good notes on it, what you liked, what touched you, what moved you, what's a possible way, and then you go about on a rewrite."
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