Feige said he learned two important things from working with Sam Raimi. “And when I say ‘working with,’ ” he clarified, “I say that more as ‘hanging out and watching.’ ” One was to exert maximum effort on a movie, so that at the end, you would feel “like a deflated balloon,” knowing that you had put everything you had into it. The other was to make decisions based on how you wanted the audience to feel, rather than trying to overwhelm them with your artistic vision. “If it’s not going to translate, it’s literally meaningless,” Feige said. “Sam always put everything he had into those movies,
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