(I think that's from Magnolia, but it might not be verbatim.)
For work today, I was in a studio, overseeing filming of an educational resource. It's a ____ video to complement the existing ____ video that we'd had made. Deja vu central. I was involved in filming an educational resource during the hot summer of 2002 with my friends Nick, Ed, Liam and Rob, back in Sheffield. I turned my back on film-making once I moved to MCR, sulkily almost, and just got stuck into living in a new city. I haven't raised a camera in anger since Easter 2005. It was odd to be back in the fray.
Moreover, it was odd to see the slightly shambolic production discipline of the company I was working with. The microphone wasn't there on time, for example, and the director was doing lots of Joe-jobs around the set that I - as a first AD - would probably have got a runner to handle. Actors were left waiting around for an age, not really looked after by the crew... I found myself looking around and thinking, "I could manage this better... maybe I've still got a film-makers head on these shoulders... maybe I should say something." Of course, I didn't say anything. That would be quite unprofessional of me.
Maybe I should make films again.
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