you can’t create more magic with mere repetition. You have to keep inviting it and stirring the pot and poking the bear and whispering to the magic and remaining open to a response. The one thing you can’t do is to push the same button again and again. By the afternoon, as we continued to work on this particular scene because I wasn’t surrendering to the magic, I found myself trying to force it. I felt that I just couldn’t get to where I wanted to go emotionally; I couldn’t find the truth. It was as if I were merely performing an idea of the scene. I had never been on a movie this big, or had
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