Something has changed in my work. I always wanted to do good work, but this is more.I feel like Han Solo when he saw Lando take out the Millennium Falcon.
For some reason, on this project, my thoughts always come back to this - I may never get to make something like this ever again. I hope I'm wrong, of course. But the result of that is that I don't want one frame to make it to air that I'm not 100% happy with.
Even to the point of throwing out whole episodes.
Because, once the show is finished, it has a life of its own and can never be redone. And I may never get to do it again. There may never be more.
But there are realities to the business end - budget and time. People can't afford just to throw out whole finished episodes. Well, maybe they can. Maybe things can be shifted, budgets juggled and producers can get a little bit creative. After all, we all want a great product, don't we?
The idea of a last chance changes everything.
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If we could all have the luxury George Lucas enjoys, right?
But in this world only artists can afford to spend years retouching a canvas. Picasso said that a painting was never really finished, and I agree —when I'm in the middle of a project, often times I can come up with a much better solution, but then you can't jut discard all the previous work if you have a schedule to honor.
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