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Because I got to experience what it was like to stand my ground and do what I knew needed to be done, and see how good the outcome was.

They want me to get a range of intermediate shots, close-ups and reverse angles, all for safety’s sake. But I have always filmed only what I need for the screen, and nothing else. When you do open heart surgery, you don’t go for the appendix or toenails, you go straight for the beating heart.

Most people would never consider a solution like that, but sometimes, that is what high agency looks like.

Did The Argonauts always begin as it does?

But as a writer you have to be willing to say, Yeah, that’s not good enough, over and over and over again.

On arriving at her door in the rain, a stranger with suitcase in tow, I was furnished with lunch before I learned it was her birthday.

at once precise and discursive, friendly and skeptical, direct and elliptical