“Improvising with glass is a tricky thing, though. If you get too unscripted, things can go badly wrong, and glass is not a very forgiving material. So it’s a delicate line … There are times when shit happens and the glass does something unexpected, and at those times it’s really interesting to see how different gaffers and teams deal with the unexpected. Some ride with it and some break down and throw the piece away. Lino once said to me, ‘It’s not so much what you can make that determines how good a glassblower you are—it’s what you can fix.’”
