There is always a good conversation to be had on a movie set, around the Production Office, and during the Postproduction process because most of moviemaking is spent waiting. The question How'd you get started in this racket? prompts hours of very personal, improbable stories, each saga worth a book of its own. Disappointment? While hanging around for the making of a motion picture? A fig! If they saw how we movie-orphans do our job, they'd be bored silly and very disappointed." Those people look at the Northern Lights as having been designed. How did you come up with the girl in the brown polka-dot dress who could whistle so loud? When did you first imagine that last, indelible image of those blackbirds on the TV aerial, and where did you find trained blackbirds? Why, they ask, did this film succeed when this other film went flat? Why did you make Bonkers A-Go-Go instead of Moochie Spills the Beans ? That's when I look at my watch and say, 'Hot damn! I'm late for that marketing meeting' and bolt the interview. One night on location, after another long, hard, yet average day of shooting, over YouGo FroYo, Bill told me, "Journalists-the lazy ones anyway-always try to explain how movies are made, as though there's a secret formula that we've patented, or procedures that are listed like a flight plan for a voyage to the moon and back.
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