Show business is equal parts inspiration, drudgery and magic.
You work for months and months gestating an idea and, most of the time, it goes nowhere. I was telling someone today that, if I had ten bucks for every treatment I've written that went nowhere, I'd be able to finance one of 'em.
Seriously.
Then, a couple of times every ten years or so, something gets off the ground and then you gird yourself for the soul-killing drudgery of it; where you walk, lift, lug, trouble shoot, travel, lift, lug, eat at crappy buffets, lift, lug, sleep on hard beds, travel, lift, lug, climb, trouble shoot, sit in traffic, travel, lift, lug, argue, fight, try to sleep, get lost, skip some meals, get sunburned...
You get the idea.
Several times on 'first unit' we laughed about how 'manual labour' filmmaking is.
Then, once is a while, you get a couple of hours of downtime and you go snorkelling.
Naturally, your wife (and friends) rib you a bit, about how 'hard' you've got it ('cause all everyone sees with social media is your highlight reel) but you know the truth.
You're underwater with all this work you've got to get done.
T-minus 18 days 'till I board a plane to go shoot 'second unit'.
And we start editing tomorrow.
Here we go...
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